Tales from a thousand and one ways to integrate marine ecosystem components when assessing the environmental status

Frontiers in Marine Science

Volumn 1, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Borja, Angel ^a   Prins, Theo C ^b   Simboura, Nomiki ^c   Andersen, Jesper H ^d   Berg, Torsten ^e   Marques, Joao Carlos ^f   Neto, Joao M ^f   Papadopoulou, Nadia ^c   Reker, Johnny ^g   Teixeira, Heliana ^h   Uusitalo, Laura ⁱ  

^a MARINE RESEARCH DIVISION   (Spain)

^b DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^d NIVA Denmark Water Research   (Denmark)

^e MARILIM AQUATIC RESEARCH GMBH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^g EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (Denmark)

^h JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

ⁱ FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Assessment; Criteria; Descriptors; Ecosystems; Indicators; Integration; Marine; Marine Strategy Framework Directive

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006722576     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22967745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2014.00072     Document Type: Review

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