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T1 Manual of Methods in Aquatic Environment Research Part 8 - Ecological Assessment of Pollution Effects (Guidelines for the FAO(GFCM)/UNEP Joint Coordinated Project on Pollution in the Mediterranean). FAO Fisheries Technical Paper No. 209
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
A1 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 
A2 Strin, Joze
K1 ecosystem
K1 pollution
K1 toxic substance
K1 environmental impact assessment
K1 sampling
SN 92-5-101115-X
YR 1981
FD 1981
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/29245
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/29245
NO This document specifies the communities and ecosystems to be studied, as well as the parameters and effects to be analysed and the general methodology to be used. Although the consequences of significant pollution appear in the marine environment as changes of most characteristics of the ecosystem, this manual is mainly providing methods for the assessment of pollution-induced modifications as shown in the structure, and particularly in changed diversity, of communities. The manual recommends that such investigations be focused on benthic communities, combined with as much information as possible on pelagic environmental conditions, bioproductivity and communities. Therefore, basic methods for sampling, processing and determinations of phyto and zooplankton are given as well.
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RD Sep 25, 2026