Long-Term Trends in Intertidal and Subtidal Benthic Communities in Response to Water Quality Improvement Measures

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1314-1326

  Chainho, Paula ^a   Silva, Gilda ^a   Lane, Michael F ^b   Costa, J L ^a   Pereira, Tadeu ^a   Azeda, Carla ^a   Almeida, Pedro R ^a,c   Metelo, Inês ^d   Costa, Maria J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^d Direcção Municipal de Ambiente Urbano   (Portugal)

Author keywords

AMBI; Benthic quality assessment; Long term trends; Spatial and temporal patterns; Tagus estuary

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; BIOMASS; DIVERSITY INDEX; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; WATER QUALITY;

LISBOA [PORTUGAL]; PORTUGAL; TAGUS ESTUARY;

EID: 77957666955     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-010-9321-2     Document Type: Article

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