Ecological monitoring of intertidal phytobenthic communities of the Basque Coast (N. Spain) following the Prestige oil spill

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 159, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 555-575

  Diez I ^a   Secilla, A ^a   Santolaria, A ^a   Gorostiaga, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Corallina elongata; Distribution patterns; Macroalgal assemblages; Oil spill; Pollution; Seaweeds; Spatial variation; Temporal variation

Indexed keywords

DAMAGING EFFECTS; DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; ECOLOGICAL MONITORING; FIRST YEAR; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; OIL SPILL POLLUTION; PRESTIGE OIL SPILL; QUANTITATIVE DATA; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SPECIES RICHNESS; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; TEMPORAL SCALE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

LANDFORMS; LOCATION; OIL SPILLS; SEAWEED;

MARINE POLLUTION;

BIOMONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MACROALGA; OIL SPILL; PHYTOBENTHOS; POLLUTION EFFECT; SEAWEED; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INTERTIDAL ZONE; MACROALGA; MACROBENTHOS; NONHUMAN; OIL SPILL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASHORE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPRING; WATER SAMPLING;

ALGAE; ALGAE, RED; DISASTERS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FUEL OILS; SEAWATER; SHIPS; SPAIN; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BASQUE COUNTRY; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

ALGAE; CORALLINA ELONGATA;

EID: 70450247346     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-008-0651-5     Document Type: Article

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