An approach to identifying potential surrogates of periphytic ciliate communities for monitoring water quality of coastal waters

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1228-1234

  Xu, Henglong ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a   Jiang, Yong ^a   Min, Gi Sik ^b   Choi, Joong Ki ^b  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b Inha University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Artificial substrate; Bioassessment; Periphytic ciliate; Surrogate; Taxonomic sufficiency

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL SUBSTRATES; BIOASSESSMENT; PERIPHYTIC CILIATE; SURROGATE; TAXONOMIC SUFFICIENCY;

ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; METADATA; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

WATER QUALITY;

CILIATE; COASTAL WATER; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PERIPHYTON; SUBSTRATE; SURROGATE METHOD; TAXONOMY; TRANSFORM; WATER QUALITY;

KOREA;

CILIOPHORA; PROTISTA; ZOOTHAMNIUM DUPLICATUM;

EID: 79955802034     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2010.12.025     Document Type: Article

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