Detecting human mitigation intervention: Effects of sewage treatment upgrade on rocky macrofaunal assemblages

Marine Environmental Research

Volumn 80, Issue , 2012, Pages 27-37

  Bustamante, María ^a   Bevilacqua, Stanislao ^b   Tajadura, Javier ^a   Terlizzi, Antonio ^b   Saiz Salinas, José Ignacio ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

BACI designs; Disturbance; Hard substrata; Invertebrates; Recovery; Taxonomic diversity

Indexed keywords

BACI DESIGN; DISTURBANCE; HARD SUBSTRATA; INVERTEBRATES; TAXONOMIC DIVERSITY;

CESIUM; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; RECOVERY; STATISTICS;

SEWAGE TREATMENT;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; INVERTEBRATE; ROCKY SHORE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BENTHOS; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; DISPERSION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HABITAT; LOW INTERTIDAL; MACROFAUNA; MID INTERTIDAL; NONHUMAN; SAMPLE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SPAIN; SUBTIDAL; WASTE WATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INVERTEBRATES; SEWAGE; TIME FACTORS; WATER PURIFICATION;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84865409388     PISSN: 01411136     EISSN: 18790291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2012.06.007     Document Type: Article

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