Taxonomic sufficiency of polychaete taxocenes for estuary monitoring

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 149-156

  Soares Gomes, A ^a   Mendes, C L T ^a   Tavares, M ^b   Santi, L ^c  

^a FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDADE SANTA ÚRSULA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Guanabara Bay; Macrozoobenthos; Pollution, Brazil; Subllitoral

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLAGE STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GUANABARA BAY; MACROZOOBENTHOS; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE TECHNIQUES; ORGANIC ENRICHMENT; POLLUTION GRADIENT; REDOX CONDITION; SPECIES ABUNDANCE; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUBLLITORAL; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATIONS; UNIVARIATE;

FORESTRY; POLLUTION;

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; HABITAT TYPE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLYCHAETE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REDOX POTENTIAL; TAXONOMY; ZOOBENTHOS;

BRAZIL; GUANABARA BAY; RIO DE JANEIRO [BRAZIL];

POLYCHAETA;

EID: 81755161211     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.09.030     Document Type: Article

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