A review on the ecological quality status assessment in aquatic systems using community based indicators and ecotoxicological tools: What might be the added value of their combination?

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 48, Issue , 2015, Pages 8-16

  Martinez Haro, Monica ^a   Beiras, Ricardo ^b   Bellas, Juan ^c   Capela, Ricardo ^d   Coelho, João Pedro ^e   Lopes, Isabel ^e   Moreira Santos, Matilde ^a   Reis Henriques, Armanda Maria ^d   Ribeiro, Rui ^a   Santos, M Miguel ^d,f   Marques, João Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^c Instituto Español de Oceanografía Subida a Radio Faro   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Bioassays; Biomarkers; Ecological indices; Quality status; Water Framework Directive; WFD

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BIOASSAY; BIOMARKERS; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; INDICATORS (CHEMICAL); SURFACE WATERS; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER QUALITY;

CAUSE-EFFECT RELATIONSHIPS; CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICALS; ECOLOGICAL INDICES; ECOLOGICAL QUALITY STATUS; EUROPEAN WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE; QUALITY STATUS; WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVES; WATER QUALITY ASSESSMENTS; AQUATIC SYSTEM; COMMUNITY-BASED; ECOTOXICOLOGICAL; WFD;

ECOSYSTEMS; BIOASSAY;

BIOASSAY; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOMARKER; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EUROPEAN UNION; GUIDELINE; LITERATURE REVIEW; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; SURFACE WATER; WATER PLANNING;

EID: 84906696714     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.07.024     Document Type: Article

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