Shallow sublittoral meiofauna communities and sediment polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) content on the Galician coast (NW Spain), six months after the Prestige oil spill

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 581-588

  Veiga, P ^a   Rubal, M ^a   Besteiro, C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b Estación de Bioloxía Mariña da Graña EBMG   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chrysene; Meiobenthos; PAHs; Prestige; Taxonomic sufficiency; Triphenylene

Indexed keywords

CHRYSENE; MEIOBENTHOS; PAHS; PRESTIGE; TAXONOMIC SUFFICIENCY; TRIPHENYLENE;

LANDFORMS; MARINE POLLUTION; OIL SPILLS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

CHRYSENE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; FLATWORM; MARINE SEDIMENT; MEIOFAUNA; NEMATODE; OIL SPILL; PAH; POLLUTION EFFECT; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COPEPOD; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MEIOFAUNA; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; OIL SPILL; ORGANISM COMMUNITY; SEA POLLUTION; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT; SPAIN; SPECIES COMPOSITION; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIODIVERSITY; DISASTERS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INVERTEBRATES; PETROLEUM; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; POPULATION DENSITY; SPAIN; TIME FACTORS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GALICIA [SPAIN]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

COPEPODA; GASTROTRICHA; NEMATODA; TURBELLARIA;

EID: 63649085097     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2008.11.002     Document Type: Article

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