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Effectiveness of Posidonia oceanica biotic indices for assessing the ecological status of coastal waters in the Saronikos Gulf (Aegean Sea, Eastern M…

2017

Biotic indices are considered key assessment tools in most national and European policies aimed at improving the quality of coastal waters. At present, several Water Framework Directive (WFD)-compliant biotic indices based on the marine angiosperm Posidonia oceanica have been developed and applied in the Mediterranean Sea. In this study, we investigated the effectiveness of four different P. oceanica indices (POMI, PREI, Valencian CS, and BiPo) in evaluating the ecological status of coastal waters in a case study area of Greece. The evaluation, comparison, and validation of the Ecological Status Class (ESC) assessments obtained by each index were based on a set of eight common sites that en…

0106 biological sciencesSettore BIO/07 - EcologiaEnvironmental EngineeringRange (biology)Eastern mediterranean010501 environmental sciencesAquatic ScienceOceanography01 natural scienceslcsh:Aquaculture. Fisheries. AnglingMediterranean seaEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicsEnvironmental quality0105 earth and related environmental sciencesBiotic indexlcsh:SH1-691Biotic indexSeagrass Biotic index Ecological status Water Framework Directive Eastern MediterraneanbiologyEcology010604 marine biology & hydrobiologySeagraSampling (statistics)biology.organism_classificationEcological statuSeagrassWater Framework DirectivePosidonia oceanicaEnvironmental scienceWater framework directive
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