Vulnerability of Portuguese estuarine habitats to human impacts and relationship with structural and functional properties of the fish community

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 18, Issue , 2012, Pages 11-19

  França, Susana ^a   Vasconcelos, Rita P ^a   Reis Santos, Patrick ^a   Fonseca, Vanessa F ^a   Costa, Maria José ^a   Cabral, Henrique N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic threats; Estuary; Habitat; Mudflat; Portugal; Saltmarsh; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC THREATS; HABITAT; MUDFLATS; PORTUGAL; SALT MARSHES; VULNERABILITY;

CONSERVATION; DEGRADATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FISH; LAND RECLAMATION; ESTUARIES;

ESTUARIES; ECOSYSTEMS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FISH; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT USE; MUDFLAT; PRIORITIZATION; SALTMARSH; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; VULNERABILITY; BIOINDICATOR; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT TYPE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND RECLAMATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; RIVER FLOW;

AVEIRO [PORTUGAL]; BEJA [PORTUGAL]; GUADIANA ESTUARY; LISBOA [PORTUGAL]; MIRA ESTUARY; PORTUGAL; RIA DE AVEIRO; SADO ESTUARY; SETUBAL [PORTUGAL]; TAGUS ESTUARY;

EID: 82655169372     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.10.014     Document Type: Article

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