Transitional and coastal waters ecological status assessment: advances and challenges resulting from implementing the European Water Framework Directive

Ecological Evaluation Index continuous formula (EEI-c) application: a step forward for functional groups, the formula and reference condition values

(2013) S. ORFANIDIS et al.   MEDITERRANEAN MARINE SCIENCE

Current developments on fish-based indices to assess ecological-quality status of estuaries and lagoons

(2012) Rafael Pérez-Domínguez et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Application of a new multi-metric phytoplankton index to the assessment of ecological status in marine and transitional waters

(2012) F. Lugoli et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Sources of uncertainty in assessment of marine phytoplankton communities

(2012) Karsten Mikael Dromph et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Testing the usefulness of a simple automatic method for particles abundance and size determination to derive cost-effective biological indicators in large monitoring networks

(2012) Maialen Garmendia et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Natural variability and reference conditions: setting type-specific classification boundaries for lagoon macroinvertebrates in the Mediterranean and Black Seas

(2012) Alberto Basset et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Exploring the robustness of macrophyte-based classification methods to assess the ecological status of coastal and transitional ecosystems under the Water Framework Directive

(2012) Oriol Mascaró et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Estimating confidence of European WFD ecological status class and WISER Bioassessment Uncertainty Guidance Software (WISERBUGS)

(2012) Ralph T. Clarke   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Diversity of European seagrass indicators: patterns within and across regions

(2012) Núria Marbà et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Uncertainty analysis along the ecological quality status of water bodies: The response of the Posidonia oceanica multivariate index (POMI) in three Mediterranean regions

(2012) Oriol Mascaró et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

A Bayesian framework to objectively combine metrics when developing stressor specific multimetric indicator

(2011) H. Drouineau et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Development of a tool for assessing the ecological quality status of intertidal coastal rocky assemblages, within Atlantic Iberian coasts

(2011) I. Díez et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Ecological quality assessment of transitional waters based on fish assemblages in Portuguese estuaries: The Estuarine Fish Assessment Index (EFAI)

(2011) H.N. Cabral et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Marine Macroalgae Assessment Tool (MarMAT) for intertidal rocky shores. Quality assessment under the scope of the European Water Framework Directive

(2011) João M. Neto et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

A benthic macroinvertebrate size spectra index for implementing the Water Framework Directive in coastal lagoons in Mediterranean and Black Sea ecoregions

(2011) A. Basset et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Three hundred ways to assess Europe's surface waters: An almost complete overview of biological methods to implement the Water Framework Directive

(2011) Sebastian Birk et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

The importance of setting targets and reference conditions in assessing marine ecosystem quality

(2011) Ángel Borja et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Benthic and Pelagic Primary Production in Different Nutrient Regimes

(2011) Dorte Krause-Jensen et al.   Estuaries and Coasts

Challenging paradigms in estuarine ecology and management

(2011) M. Elliott et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

A diagnostic modelling framework to construct indices of biotic integrity: A case study of fish in the Zeeschelde estuary (Belgium)

(2011) Paul Quataert et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Ecological quality assessment of small estuaries from the Portuguese coast based on fish assemblages indices

(2011) Inês Cardoso et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Ecological status of seagrass ecosystems: An uncertainty analysis of the meadow classification based on the Posidonia oceanica multivariate index (POMI)

(2011) Scott Bennett et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Response of single benthic metrics and multi-metric methods to anthropogenic pressure gradients, in five distinct European coastal and transitional ecosystems

(2011) Angel Borja et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Management of the marine environment: Integrating ecosystem services and societal benefits with the DPSIR framework in a systems approach

(2011) Jonathan P. Atkins et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Phytoplankton communities and biomass size structure (fractionated chlorophyll “a”), along trophic gradients of the Basque coast (northern Spain)

(2010) Maialen Garmendia et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Macrophytes in the anthropic constructions of the Venice littorals and their ecological assessment by an integration of the “CARLIT” index

(2010) Adriano Sfriso et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

The Response of Estuarine Macrobenthic Communities to Natural- and Human-Induced Changes: Dynamics and Ecological Quality

(2010) João Magalhães Neto et al.   Estuaries and Coasts

Development of a fish-based index to assess the ecological quality of transitional waters: The case of French estuaries

(2010) C. Delpech et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Problems associated with the ‘one-out, all-out’ principle, when using multiple ecosystem components in assessing the ecological status of marine waters

(2010) Ángel Borja et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Marine management – Towards an integrated implementation of the European Marine Strategy Framework and the Water Framework Directives

(2010) Ángel Borja et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Marine science and management means tackling exogenic unmanaged pressures and endogenic managed pressures – A numbered guide

(2010) Michael Elliott   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

The European Water Framework Directive at the age of 10: A critical review of the achievements with recommendations for the future

(2010) Daniel Hering et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Assessing fish quality status in transitional waters, within the European Water Framework Directive: Setting boundary classes and responding to anthropogenic pressures

(2009) Ainhize Uriarte et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

How well do ecosystem indicators communicate the effects of anthropogenic eutrophication?

(2009) Abigail McQuatters-Gollop et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

New quantitative approaches for classifying and predicting local-scale habitats in estuaries

(2009) Fiona J. Valesini et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Application of an angiosperm-based classification system (BiPo) to Mediterranean coastal waters: using spatial analysis and data on metal contamination of plants in identifying sources of pressure

(2009) Cecilia Lopez y Royo et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Current status of macroinvertebrate methods used for assessing the quality of European marine waters: implementing the Water Framework Directive

(2009) Angel Borja et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Phytoplankton biomass response to nitrogen inputs: a method for WFD boundary setting applied to Danish coastal waters

(2009) Jacob Carstensen et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Paradigmatic responses of marine benthic communities to different anthropogenic pressures, using M-AMBI, within the European Water Framework Directive

(2009) Angel Borja et al.   Marine Ecology-An Evolutionary Perspective

Assessment of marine benthic quality change in gradients of disturbance: Comparison of different Scandinavian multi-metric indices

(2009) Alf B. Josefson et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Assessing coastal benthic macrofauna community condition using best professional judgement – Developing consensus across North America and Europe

(2009) Heliana Teixeira et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Comparison of two methods for quality assessment of macroalgae assemblages, under different pollution types

(2008) Xabier Guinda et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Interactive and cumulative effects of multiple human stressors in marine systems

(2008) Caitlin Mullan Crain et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Return to Neverland: Shifting Baselines Affect Eutrophication Restoration Targets

(2008) Carlos M. Duarte et al.   Estuaries and Coasts

Multiple stressor effects identified from species abundance distributions: Interactions between urban contaminants and species habitat relationships

(2008) Simon F. Thrush et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Use of multimetric indices to classify estuaries with different hydromorphological characteristics and different levels of human pressure

(2008) P. Chainho et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Macroalgae, a suitable indicator of the ecological status of coastal rocky communities in the NE Atlantic

(2007) J.A. Juanes et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Assessing the environmental quality status in estuarine and coastal systems: Comparing methodologies and indices

(2007) A. Borja et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS