Abstract The northern Bering and Chukchi Seas are areas in the Pacific Arctic characterized
by high northward advection of Pacific Ocean water, with seasonal variability in sea ice …

Changing the taxonomic scale of a biotic-assemblage dataset influences our ability to detect
ecological patterns. In bioassessments, a test-site's biological community is compared …

In the early 1980s, a strategy for graphical representation of multivariate (multi‐species)
abundance data was introduced into marine ecology by, among others, Field, et al.(1982). A …

A general scheme for approaching the objective of Ecological Quality Status (EcoQ)
classification of zoobenthic marine ecosystems is presented. A system based on soft bottom …

The development of field sampling designs that employ multiple reference and polluted sites
has been proposed as an alternative to the traditional upstream vs. downstream approach …

Commercial fishing is one of the most important human impacts on the marine benthic
environment. One such impact is through disturbance to benthic habitats as fishing gear …

This paper considers the use of meiofauna (benthic metazoa 45 to 500 μm in size) as
biological indicators for monitoring marine environmental health. To date, this abundant and …

Macrofaunal abundance, biomass, diversity and species assemblages within Scripps and
La Jolla Submarine Canyons are compared with those on the nearby continental shelf and …

For marine macrobenthic communities, a shift from higher biomass dominance with
increasing levels of disturbance can be determined by the abundance/biomass comparison …

1.1 Background Since sediments are the ultimate repository of most of the contaminants that
enter Australia s waterways, it is appropriate that regulatory attention address the ecological …