Visitor impact on rocky shore communities of Qeshm Island, the Persian Gulf, Iran

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1859-1871

  Pour, Fatemeh Aghajan ^a   Shokri, Mohammad Reza ^a   Abtahi, Behrooz ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Assemblage structure; Impact assessment; Intertidal macroinvertebrates; Multivariate analyses; Richness

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLAGE STRUCTURE; IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; MACROINVERTEBRATES; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; RICHNESS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

OFFSHORE OIL WELLS;

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ROCKY SHORE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; TOURIST DESTINATION;

ARTICLE; BALANUS AMPHITRITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); IRAN; MICROHABITAT; NONHUMAN; SEASHORE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES DOMINANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TOURISM; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INDIAN OCEAN; INVERTEBRATE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

HORMOZGAN; IRAN; QESHM;

ANTHOZOA; BALANUS AMPHITRITE; RHIZOPHORACEAE; THORACICA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INDIAN OCEAN; INVERTEBRATES; IRAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874446450     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-012-2673-2     Document Type: Article

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