Changes in the soft-bottom macrobenthic diversity and community structure from the ports of Mumbai, India

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 653-672

  Mandal, Sumit ^a   Harkantra, Sadanand N ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

Author keywords

Harbor; India; Macrobenthos; Monsoon; Polychaete; Species diversity index

Indexed keywords

INDIA; MACRO BENTHOS; MONSOON; POLYCHAETE; SPECIES DIVERSITY INDEX;

BIODIVERSITY; POPULATION STATISTICS; PORTS AND HARBORS; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

ABUNDANCE; AMPHIPOD; ANNELID; BIVALVE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DIVERSITY INDEX; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HARBOR; MACROBENTHOS; MONSOON; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOFT-BOTTOM ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

AMPHIPODA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIVALVE; COSSURA COASTA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GLYCERA LONGIPINNIS; INDIA; MACROBENTHOS; NONHUMAN; PARAPRIONOSPIO PINNATA; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLYCHAETA; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES DOMINANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDIA; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVERTEBRATES; SHIPS;

INDIA; JAWAHARLAL NEHRU PORT; MAHARASHTRA; MUMBAI;

AMPHIPODA; BIVALVIA; COSSURA COASTA; GLYCERA; INVERTEBRATA; PARAPRIONOSPIO PINNATA; PARHETEROMASTUS TENUIS; PERINEREIS; POLYCHAETA; PRIONOSPIO POLYBRANCHIATA; SIGAMBRA;

EID: 84872005317     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-012-2582-4     Document Type: Article

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