Testing biotic indices for marine zoobenthos quality assessment in the Polish sector of the Baltic Sea

Journal of Marine Systems

Volumn 74, Issue SUPPL., 2008, Pages

  Osowiecki, Andrzej ^a   Łysiak Pastuszak, Elzbieta ^b   Piatkowska, Zdzisława ^b  

^a Maritime Institute of Gdansk   (Poland)

^b GDYNIA MARITIME UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Biotic indices; Monitoring; Quality assessment; Zoobenthos

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); FORESTRY;

ANTHROPOGENIC STRESSES; BALTIC SEA; BALTIC SEAS; BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES; BENTHIC MACROINVERTEBRATE; BIOTIC INDICES; COASTAL WATERS; DATA SERIES; ECOLOGICAL QUALITIES; ECOLOGICAL STATUSES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCES; EUROPEANS; MARINE AREAS; MONITORING STATIONS; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; QUALITY ASSESSMENTS; QUALITY INDICES; SPECIES ABUNDANCES; SPECIES RICHNESSES; TAXA DISTRIBUTIONS; WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVES; ZOOBENTHOS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ABUNDANCE; BENTHOS; BIOMONITORING; COASTAL WATER; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EUROPEAN UNION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INDEX OF BIOTIC INTEGRITY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; WATER QUALITY; ZOOBENTHOS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 57049160890     PISSN: 09247963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2008.03.025     Document Type: Article

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