The Response of Hyperbenthos and Infauna to Hypoxia in Fjords along the Skagerrak: Estimating Loss of Biodiversity Due to Eutrophication

Integrated Coastal Zone Management

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 79-96

  Buhl Mortensen, Lene ^a   Oug, Eivind ^b   Aure, Jan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Carbon flux and low oxygen concentrations and marine bottom fauna; Ecological quality criteria in marine bottom environmental management; Ecological quality objectives (EcoQOs) for North Sea; Environmental factors and hyperbenthos and infauna diversity; Historical mean oxygen minimum values in fjord basins; Hyperbenthos and Rothlisberg Percy (RP) epibenthic sledge; Hyperbenthos species richness Sh and fjord basin bottom oxygen conditions; Infauna and hyperbenthos in fjord basin study; Norwegian Skagerrak coast fjords; Water Framework Directive (WFD)

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649352930     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444316285.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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