Linking chemical contamination to biological effects in coastal pollution monitoring

Ecotoxicology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 9-17

  Beiras, Ricardo ^a   Durán, Iria ^a   Parra, Santiago ^b   Urrutia, Miren B ^c   Besada, Victoria ^b   Bellas, Juan ^b   Viñas, Lucía ^b   Sánchez Marín, Paula ^a   González Quijano, Amelia ^b   Franco, María A ^b   Nieto, Óscar ^a   González, Juan J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

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

Author keywords

Benthic community diversity; Chemical pollution index; Coastal pollution; Environmental monitoring; Physiological energetics; SFG

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; BIOENERGETICS; BIVALVE; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; COASTAL ZONE; DATA SET; MARINE POLLUTION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION MONITORING; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MACROFAUNA; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING;

ANIMALS; BIVALVIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; EUROPE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; METALS, HEAVY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

GALICIA [SPAIN]; PONTEVEDRA [GALICIA]; RIA DE VIGO; RIAS BAJAS; SPAIN;

MYTILIDAE;

EID: 84856268256     PISSN: 09639292     EISSN: 15733017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10646-011-0757-3     Document Type: Article

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