Ecological indicators for coastal and estuarine environmental assessment; a users guide.

9781845642099

Ecological indicators for coastal and estuarine environmental assessment; a users guide.

Marques, J.C. et al.

WIT Press

2009

183 pages

$142.00

Hardcover

GE140

Marques (zoology, U. of Coimbra, Portugal), Salas (ecology and hydrology, U. of Murcia, Spain), Patricio (marine research, U. of Coimbra, Portugal), Teixeira (marine research, U. of Coimbra, Portugal) and Neto (marine research, U. of Coimbra, Portugal) have written this guide to ecological indicators for coastal and estuarine environments for environmental researchers and engineers who need to regularly assess zone conditions. The authors review each indicator and its characteristics and provide decision trees based on a variety of data sets, ecological quality status and indices. A special section is devoted to selecting ecological indicators based on benthic invertebrate fauna data sets. The US office of WIT Press is Computational Mechanics.

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