Diversity of European seagrass indicators: Patterns within and across regions

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 704, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 265-278

  Marbà, Núria ^a   Krause Jensen, Dorte ^b   Alcoverro, Teresa ^c   Birk, Sebastian ^d   Pedersen, Are ^e   Neto, Joao M ^f   Orfanidis, Sotiris ^g   Garmendia, Joxe M ^h   Muxika, Iñigo ^h   Borja, Angel ^h   Dencheva, Kristina ⁱ   Duarte, Carlos M ^a,j  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^c CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^e NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^g INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

^h MARINE RESEARCH DIVISION   (Spain)

ⁱ BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

^j UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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Author keywords

Cymodocea nodosa; European Water Framework Directive; Metrics; Monitoring; Posidonia oceanica; Zostera marina; Zostera noltii

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOINDICATOR; DISTURBANCE; ECOREGION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPEAN UNION; HYDROBIOLOGY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; SEAGRASS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EUROPE;

CYMODOCEA NODOSA; POSIDONIA OCEANICA; ZOSTERA MARINA; ZOSTERA NOLTII;

EID: 84873747068     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-012-1403-7     Document Type: Article

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