A review of indicators of estuarine tidal wetland condition

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 514-525

  Weilhoefer, C L ^a,b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b NORTH CENTRAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Indicator; Review article; Tidal wetland

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; FORESTRY; GENE EXPRESSION; INDICATORS (INSTRUMENTS); WETLANDS;

COMMUNITY SIMILARITY; DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; EXPENSIVE EQUIPMENTS; INDICATOR DEVELOPMENT; TECHNICAL COMPLEXITY; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL; TIDAL WETLANDS;

INDICATORS (CHEMICAL);

BIOINDICATOR; BIOMONITORING; COASTAL WETLAND; CRUSTACEAN; DATA ACQUISITION; DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FECUNDITY; FLATWORM; GENE EXPRESSION; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; LITERATURE REVIEW; MACROINVERTEBRATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

UNITED STATES;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PALAEMONETES PUGIO; TREMATODA;

EID: 79954421020     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2010.07.007     Document Type: Article

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