Trends in water quality and subtidal benthic communities in a temperate estuary: Is the response to restoration efforts hidden by climate variability and the Estuarine Quality Paradox?

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 24, Issue , 2013, Pages 56-67

  Veríssimo, Helena ^a   Lane, Michael ^b   Patrício, Joana ^a   Gamito, Sofia ^c   Marques, João Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Management; Restoration; Subtidal macroinvertebrates; Trends; Water quality

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC PRESSURES; ANTHROPOGENIC STRESSORS; BENTHIC COMMUNITIES; CAUSE-EFFECT RELATIONSHIPS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; ECOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; ECOLOGICAL QUALITY; ECOLOGICAL RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABILITY; ESTUARINE SYSTEMS; EUROPEAN WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE; MACROINVERTEBRATES; MONITORING NETWORK; PORTUGAL; TEMPORAL PATTERN; TEMPORAL TRENDS; TREND ANALYSIS; TRENDS;

CLIMATOLOGY; ECOLOGY; ESTUARIES; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MANAGEMENT; RESTORATION;

WATER QUALITY;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BENTHOS; CLIMATE VARIATION; FUTURE PROSPECT; MACROINVERTEBRATE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; WATER QUALITY;

COIMBRA [PORTUGAL]; MONDEGO ESTUARY; PORTUGAL;

EID: 84863219378     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2012.05.028     Document Type: Article

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