The influence of mesh size in environmental quality assessment of estuarine macrobenthic communities

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1162-1173

  Couto, Thiago ^a   Patrício, Joana ^a   Neto, João M ^a   Ceia, Filipe R ^a   Franco, João ^a   Marques, João Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Ecological quality assessment; Estuary; Macrofauna; Mesh size; Portugal

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT TOOL; BENTHIC MACROFAUNA; CLASS BOUNDARY; ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS; ECOLOGICAL QUALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ASSESSMENT; MACROBENTHIC COMMUNITY; MACROFAUNA; MARINE BIOTIC INDICES; MESH SIEVES; MESH SIZE; NUMBER OF SPECIES; PORTUGAL; REFERENCE CONDITION; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; SAMPLING STATIONS; WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVES; WIENER INDEX;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ESTUARIES; EXERGY; WATER CONSERVATION;

SIEVES;

BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; MACROBENTHOS; MESH SIZE; POPULATION DENSITY; SAMPLING;

COIMBRA [PORTUGAL]; MONDEGO ESTUARY; PORTUGAL;

EID: 77957873702     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2010.03.019     Document Type: Article

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