Biomonitoring Climate Change and Pollution in Marine Ecosystems: A Review on Aulacomya ater

The sedentarism and wide global distribution of the blue mussel Mytilus edulis have made it a useful bioindicator to assess changes in the health status of the marine ecosystem in response to pollution and other environmental stresses. Effective biomonitoring of an ecosystem requires, however, that...

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Main Authors: France Caza, Maximiliano Cledon, Yves St-Pierre
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2016-01-01
Series:Journal of Marine Biology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/7183813