Effects of two offshore gas platforms on soft-bottom benthic communities (northwestern Adriatic Sea, Italy)

Marine Environmental Research

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 402-410

  Manoukian, Sarine ^a   Spagnolo, Alessandra ^a   Scarcella, Giuseppe ^a   Punzo, Elisa ^a   Angelini, Roberta ^b   Fabi, Gianna ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b ENI S P A   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adriatic sea; Community composition; Environmental impact; Mussel mound; Offshore structures; Zoobenthos

Indexed keywords

ADRIATIC SEA; BENTHIC COMMUNITIES; CALIPSO; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DEFAUNATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FEATURES; GAS PLATFORMS; GEOGRAPHICAL POSITIONS; MACROZOOBENTHOS; MUSSEL MOUND; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; SAMPLING STATIONS; SHORT-TERM EFFECTS; SOFT-BOTTOM; SPECIES RICHNESS; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ZOOBENTHOS;

FORESTRY; OFFSHORE STRUCTURES;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GAS PLATFORM; OFFSHORE STRUCTURE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SOFT-BOTTOM ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; ZOOBENTHOS;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ITALY; MACROBENTHOS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; OFFSHORE OIL INDUSTRY; SEA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING INDUSTRY; FOSSIL FUELS; INVERTEBRATES; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTANTS;

ADRIATIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 77957790495     PISSN: 01411136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2010.08.004     Document Type: Article

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