Development of a tool for assessing the ecological quality status of intertidal coastal rocky assemblages, within Atlantic Iberian coasts

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 58-71

  Diez I ^a   Bustamante, M ^a   Santolaria, A ^a   Tajadura, J ^a   Muguerza, N ^a   Borja, A ^b   Muxika, I ^b   Saiz Salinas, J I ^a   Gorostiaga, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b MARINE RESEARCH DIVISION   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ecological quality assessment; Hard bottom indicators; Invertebrates; Macroalgae; Marine pollution; Water Framework Directive

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL QUALITY; HARD BOTTOM INDICATORS; INVERTEBRATES; MACRO-ALGAE; WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE;

ANIMALS; FORESTRY; MARINE POLLUTION; POLLUTION; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

ECOLOGY;

ABUNDANCE; BIOINDICATOR; COASTAL WATER; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; INVERTEBRATE; MACROALGA; MARINE POLLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; WATER QUALITY;

ATLANTIC COAST [EUROPE]; ATLANTIC COAST [SPAIN]; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SPAIN;

ALGAE; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 80052556750     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.05.014     Document Type: Article

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