Benthic studies in LTER sites: the use of taxonomy surrogates in the detection of long-term changes in lagoonal benthic assemblages

In benthic studies, the identification of organisms at the species level is known to be the best source for ecological and biological information even if time-consuming and expensive. However, taxonomic sufficiency (TS) has been proposed as a short-cut method for quantifying change...

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Main Authors: Valentina Pitacco, Michele Mistri, Vanessa Infantini, Adriano Sfriso, Andrea Augusto Sfriso, Cristina Munari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2019-05-01
Series:Nature Conservation
Online Access:https://natureconservation.pensoft.net/article/27610/download/pdf/