Environmental quality of transitional waters: The lagoon of Venice case study

Environment International

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 31-41

  Micheletti, C ^a   Gottardo, S ^a   Critto, A ^a   Chiarato, S ^a   Marcomini, A ^a  

^a CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Environmental quality; Lagoon of Venice; Transitional water bodies; Water Framework Directive; Weight of Evidence

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; INDICATORS (CHEMICAL); PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; SEDIMENTS; WATER CONSERVATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; LAGOON OF VENICE; TRANSITIONAL WATERS; WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVES; WEIGHT OF EVIDENCES;

LAKES;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; COASTAL LAGOON; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; POLLUTION EFFECT; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; HYDRODYNAMICS; ITALY; LAGOON; MACROBENTHOS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SEDIMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY;

ITALY; VENETO; VENEZIA [VENETO]; VENICE LAGOON;

EID: 78349305832     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2010.06.009     Document Type: Article

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