Assessing the severity of disturbance for intertidal and subtidal macrobenthos: The phylum-level meta-analysis approach in tropical estuarine sites of northeastern Brazil

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 873-887

  Carvalho, Paulo V V C ^a   Santos, Paulo J P ^b   Botter Carvalho, Mônica L ^c  

^a Laboratório de Hidrobiologia Gerência de Controle de Qualidade   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Estuarine pollution; Intertidal; Macrobenthos; Northeastern Brazil; Phylum level meta analysis; Subtidal

Indexed keywords

BODY OF KNOWLEDGE; COMPARATIVE DATA; ESTUARINE POLLUTION; MACROBENTHOS; META-ANALYSIS; NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL; SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS;

MARINE POLLUTION; POLLUTION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

ESTUARIES;

ABUNDANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ESTUARINE POLLUTION; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MACROBENTHOS; META-ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION EFFECT; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; BENTHIC FAUNA; BIOMASS DISTRIBUTION; BRAZIL; COELENTERATE; CRUSTACEA; ECHINODERM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ESTUARY; INTERTIDAL ZONE; MACROBENTHOS; MOLLUSC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PHYLUM; PLATYHELMINTH; SEA POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INVERTEBRATE; META ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; RIVER; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TROPIC CLIMATE; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; BRAZIL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INVERTEBRATES; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RIVERS; SEAWATER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WATER POLLUTION;

BRAZIL;

SEA WATER;

EID: 77953621984     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2010.01.004     Document Type: Article

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