Forever young: the successful story of a marine biotic index

A Borja, G Chust, I Muxika - Advances in marine biology, 2019 - Elsevier
In 2000, the AZTI's Marine Biotic Index (AMBI) was published and was one of a number of
marine benthic indices development to assess the ecological status of soft-bottom …

Effect of multiple stressors on the functional traits of sub-tidal macrobenthic fauna: A case study of the southeast coast of India

V Pandey, DK Jha, PS Kumar, J Santhanakumar… - Marine Pollution …, 2022 - Elsevier
The use of functional information of taxa is a promising approach to uncover the underlying
mechanism of ecosystem functioning. We used biological trait analysis (BTA) to assess the …

The efficacy of benthic indices to evaluate the ecological quality and urbanization effects on sandy beach ecosystems

HH Checon, GN Corte, YS Esmaeili, P Muniz… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Benthic indices have been widely used across different coastal ecosystems to assess
ecological quality and detect anthropic impacts, but very few studies investigated their …

Assessment of ecological health of Swarnamukhi river estuary, southeast coast of India, through AMBI indices and multivariate tools

V Pandey, S Venkatnarayanan, PS Kumar… - Marine Pollution …, 2021 - Elsevier
A combination of biotic indices, geo-accumulation (I geo) index, and a multivariate approach
were applied to assess the anthropogenic influence on the benthic community at five …

Tracing the impact and recovery trajectory of oil spill affected tropical rocky intertidal macrobenthic communities using the BOPA index

J Mulik, S Sukumaran, MJ Jisna, MN Rao - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2023 - Elsevier
A yearlong study was conducted to assess the impact of an oil spill on macrobenthos of
rocky intertidal zone of Uran, India and its recovery processes, by comparing impacted site …

Spatial and temporal variability of sandy intertidal macrobenthic communities and their relationship with environmental factors in a tropical island

V Pandey, G Thiruchitrambalam - Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Spatial and temporal variability of macrobenthic community in intertidal habitats is governed
by various physicochemical factors. Finding the relationship between environmental …

Ecological habitat quality assessment of a tropical estuary using macrobenthic functional characteristics and biotic indices

TV Rehitha, G Vineetha, NV Madhu - Environmental Science and …, 2022 - Springer
Seasonal variation in the macrobenthic functional characteristics, such as trophic structure
and secondary production, was studied, along with their structural characteristics such as …

Assessment of benthic macroinvertebrate response to anthropogenic and natural disturbances in the Kodungallur-Azhikode estuary, southwest coast of India

PR Jayachandran, M Jima, J Philomina… - Environmental …, 2020 - Springer
Benthic biotic indices are important ecological tools extensively used to understand the
ecological quality of coastal wetlands. The present study aimed to assess the ecological …

Macrobenthic community of an anthropogenically influenced mangrove associated estuary on the East coast of India: An approach for ecological assessment

A Nayak, J Equbal, SS Rout, B Dash… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The Mahanadi Estuarine System (MES), with a complex network of freshwater channels,
rivers, and mangroves, is a leading seaport in State Odisha on the east coast of India, but …

Assessing the ecological health of the Chongming Dongtan Nature Reserve, China, using different benthic biotic indices

Z Liu, B Fan, Y Huang, P Yu, Y Li, M Chen, M Cai… - Marine pollution …, 2019 - Elsevier
To assess the ecological health of the Chongming Dongtan Nature Reserve (CDNR),
univariate and multimetric indices—AZTI's Marine Biotic Index (AMBI), multivariate AMBI (M …