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| Mouillot, D; Spatharis, S; Reizopoulou, S; Laugier, Thierry; Sabetta, L; Basset, A; Chi, T. |
| 1. Transitional waters, described as critical transition zones because of their position at terrestrial, freshwater and marine interfaces, provide essential goods and services to the biosphere including human populations. These ecotones face increasing human influence mainly due to population density increase in coastal areas. 2. Transitional water bodies have, to date, received little attention in the development of ecological status indicators, this is a critical deficiency when trying to meet the Water Framework Directive objective of all significant water bodies achieving good ecological status by the year 2015. 3. In order to assess changes in transitional water communities many taxonomic-based indicators have already been proposed but there are a... |
| Tipo: Text |
Palavras-chave: Biotic descriptors; Productivity; Functional diversity; Functional traits; Body size; Water Framework Directive WFD. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2006/publication-1849.pdf |
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