Assessing confinement in coastal lagoons

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2391-2398

  Canu, Donata Melaku ^a   Solidoro, Cosimo ^a   Umgiesser, Georg ^b,d   Cucco, Andrea ^c   Ferrarin, Christian ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCES   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d KLAIPEDA UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Confinement; Indicators; Transitional environments

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATES; AQUATIC SYSTEM; BIOLOGICAL COMMUNITY; COASTAL LAGOONS; ECOLOGICAL PROPERTY; LAGOON OF VENICE; PASSIVE TRACERS; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TIDAL EXCHANGE; TRANSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS;

INDICATORS (INSTRUMENTS); MARINE POLLUTION; PLASMA CONFINEMENT;

AQUACULTURE;

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOINDICATOR; CLIMATE FORCING; COASTAL LAGOON; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONFINEMENT; HYDRODYNAMICS; LAGOON; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; METHODOLOGY; RIVER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIMULATION; TIDE; WIND;

CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ITALY; SEASONS; SEAWATER;

ITALY; VENETO; VENEZIA [VENETO]; VENICE;

EID: 84868204682     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2012.08.007     Document Type: Article

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