The European eel quality database: Towards a pan-European monitoring of eel quality

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 183, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 273-284

  Belpaire, Claude ^a   Geeraerts, Caroline ^a   Evans, Derek ^b   Ciccotti, Eleonora ^c   Poole, Russell ^d  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

^b AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^d NEWPORT CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Contaminants; Database; Diseases; Environmental monitoring; European eel

Indexed keywords

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; COOPERATIVE WORKS; DATABASE; DISTRIBUTION AREA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPEAN EEL; EUROPEAN EEL ANGUILLA ANGUILLA; FURTHER DEVELOPMENT; HEALTH DATA; HEALTH STATUS; KEY ELEMENTS; MEMBER COUNTRIES; MONITORING STRATEGY; PAN-EUROPEAN MONITORING; WATERBODIES; WORKING GROUPS;

DISEASES; HEALTH; IMPURITIES; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN;

DATABASE; DISEASE; EEL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPEAN UNION; HEALTH STATUS; POPULATION DECLINE;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; DATA BASE; EEL; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; HEALTH STATUS; NONHUMAN; SAFETY; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EELS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPE;

EUROPE;

ANGUILLA ANGUILLA;

EID: 82455192289     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-011-1920-2     Document Type: Article

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