An approach to determining potential surrogates for analyzing ecological patterns of planktonic ciliate communities in marine ecosystems

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1433-1441

  Xu, Henglong ^a   Jiang, Yong ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a   Zhu, Mingzhuang ^a   Al Rasheid, Khaled A S ^b  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Bioassessment; Marine ecosystem; Numerical resolution; Planktonic ciliate; Taxonomic sufficiency

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; CILIATE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PLANKTON; SAMPLING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SURROGATE METHOD; TAXONOMY; WATER QUALITY;

AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CHINA; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BIOMASS; CHINA; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

CHINA; JIAOZHOU BAY; SHANDONG;

CILIOPHORA; PROTISTA;

EID: 80051667111     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-011-0503-7     Document Type: Article

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