Irish estuaries: Water quality status and monitoring implications under the water framework directive

Marine Policy

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 810-818

  Hartnett, Michael ^a   Wilson, James G ^b   Nash, Stephen ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Bayesian maximum entropy; Irish estuaries; Monitoring; Water quality; WFD

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH; ESTUARY; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; MARINE POLICY; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ANALYSIS; POLICY REFORM; SALINITY; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84862002046     PISSN: 0308597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2011.01.010     Document Type: Article

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