Response of fish-based metrics to anthropogenic pressures in temperate rocky reefs

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 25, Issue , 2013, Pages 65-76

  Henriques, Sofia ^a   Pais, Miguel Pessanha ^a   Batista, Marisa Isabel ^a   Costa, Maria José ^a   Cabral, Henrique Nogueira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Environmental quality assessment; Fish based metrics; Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD); Multi stressor approach; Portugal; Temperate rocky reefs

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ASSESSMENT; FISH-BASED METRICS; FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVES; MULTI-STRESSOR APPROACH; PORTUGAL;

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FISHERIES; REEFS; THERMAL EFFLUENTS;

FISH;

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; FISH; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POPULATION DENSITY; REEF; ROCKY SHORE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TERRITORIALITY; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

PORTUGAL;

PISCES;

EID: 84866841914     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2012.09.003     Document Type: Article

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