Coastal dune systems and disturbance factors: Monitoring and analysis in central Italy

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 183, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 437-450

  De Luca, Elena ^a,b   Novelli, Claudia ^a   Barbato, Fabio ^b   Menegoni, Patrizia ^b   Iannetta, Massimo ^b   Nascetti, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^b ENEA C R CASACCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic pressures; Biodiversity indices; Canonical correspondence analysis; Coastal dune vegetation; Coastal erosion; EU habitat of interest

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC PRESSURES; BIODIVERSITY INDEXES; BIODIVERSITY INDICES; BIOINDICATION; CANONICAL CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; CENTRAL ITALY; COASTAL DUNE; COASTAL EROSION; DISTURBANCE FACTORS; EXTREME CONDITIONS; FLORISTIC SURVEYS; HABITAT LOSS; MONITORING AND ANALYSIS; PLANT COMMUNITIES; SPECIES RICHNESS; STRESS FACTORS;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; EROSION; FORESTRY; SURVEYS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; BIOINDICATOR; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; COASTAL EROSION; CONSERVATION STATUS; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DIVERSITY INDEX; DUNE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT LOSS; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT; ITALY; NONHUMAN; PLANT COMMUNITY; POLLUTION MONITORING; SEASHORE; SOIL EROSION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ITALY; PLANTS;

ITALY; LAZIO; VITERBO;

EID: 82455171919     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-011-1931-z     Document Type: Article

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