In recent years, several sets of legislation worldwide (Oceans Act in USA, Australia or
Canada; Water Framework Directive or Marine Strategy in Europe, National Water Act in …

Background In this review, the position of behavioural ecotoxicology within the available
means to assess the status of marine environments is described as filling the gap for the …

The European Community Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) was established to
provide guidelines for monitoring the quality of marine ecosystems. Monitoring the status of …

This book covers water quality indices (WQI) in depth–it describes what purpose they serve,
how they are generated, what are their strengths and weaknesses, and how to make the …

Through implementing environmental Directives, Europe has moved towards coordinated
and integrated catchment-to-coast management, following the most novel legislation on …

Many estuarine and coastal marine ecosystems have increasingly experienced degradation
caused by multiple stressors. Anthropogenic pressures alter natural ecosystems and the …

The oceans cover the majority of the Earth's surface; they influence our climate and provide
a valuable source of food to billions of people. Yet despite its fundamental impact on our …

Current biodiversity assessment and biomonitoring are largely based on the morphological
identification of selected bioindicator taxa. Recently, several attempts have been made to …

Within the past decades, the karst region in the Guangxi province in southwest China has
been in the focus of large scale ecological restoration projects. In this study, we adapt the …

Assessing benthic quality status of marine and transitional water habitats requires to set up
both:(i) tools (ie indices) to assess the relative quality of the considered habitat, and (ii) …