Defining the coastal water quality in Estonia based on benthic invertebrate communities

Estonian Journal of Ecology

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 86-105

  Kottaa, Jonne ^a   Lauringsona, Velda ^a   Kaasikb, Ants ^b   Kottaa, Ilmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Baltic Sea Pressure Index BSPI; BBI; Benthic indicators; Coastal waters; Nutrients; Soft bottom benthic macroinvertebrates; ZKI

Indexed keywords

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84861761523     PISSN: 1736602X     EISSN: 17367549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3176/eco.2012.2.02     Document Type: Article

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