Setting limits for acceptable change in sediment particle size composition: Testing a new approach to managing marine aggregate dredging

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 86-97

  Cooper, Keith M ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

English Channel; Licence conditions; Macrofauna; Marine aggregate dredging; Seabed; Sediments

Indexed keywords

ENGLISH CHANNEL; LICENCE CONDITIONS; MACROFAUNA; MARINE AGGREGATE DREDGING; SEABED;

DREDGING; EXTRACTION; SEDIMENTS;

AGGREGATES;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DREDGE SPOIL; PARTICLE SIZE; POLLUTION MONITORING; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; BENTHOS; DREDGING; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MACROFAUNA; MARINE AGGREGATE DREDGING; PARTICLE SIZE; SEDIMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ENGLISH CHANNEL; LICENCE CONDITIONS; MACROFAUNA; MARINE AGGREGATE DREDGING; SEABED; SEDIMENTS;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; PARTICLE SIZE; SHIPS; WATER POLLUTANTS;

ENGLISH CHANNEL;

EID: 84881023947     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2013.05.034     Document Type: Article

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