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Paradigms in estuarine ecology - a review of the Remane diagram with a suggested revised model for estuaries (2011)
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Whitfield, A., Elliott, M., Basset, A., Blaber, S., & West, R. (2012). Paradigms in estuarine ecology - a review of the Remane diagram with a suggested revised model for estuaries. Estuarine, coastal and shelf science, 97, 78-90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2011.11.026

Most estuarine ecology textbooks have included the so-called Remane diagram which is derived from German studies in the Baltic Sea region during the early part of the 20th Century. The model shows how aquatic species diversity changes from freshwater... Read More about Paradigms in estuarine ecology - a review of the Remane diagram with a suggested revised model for estuaries.

What are the costs and benefits of biodiversity recovery in a highly polluted estuary? (2011)
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Pascual, M., Borja, A., Franco, J., Burdon, D., Atkins, J. P., & Elliott, M. (2012). What are the costs and benefits of biodiversity recovery in a highly polluted estuary?. Water Research, 46(1), 205-217. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2011.10.053

Biodiversity recovery measures have often been ignored when dealing with the restoration of degraded aquatic systems. Furthermore, biological valuation methods have been applied only spatially in previous studies, and not jointly on a temporal and sp... Read More about What are the costs and benefits of biodiversity recovery in a highly polluted estuary?.

Managing the marine environment: is the DPSIR framework holistic enough? (2011)
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Atkins, J. P., Gregory, A. J., Burdon, D., & Elliott, M. (2011). Managing the marine environment: is the DPSIR framework holistic enough?. Systems research and behavioral science, 28(5), 497-508. https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.1111

Ever increasing and diverse use of the marine environment and consequent impacts on marine life, habitats and landscapes make prominent the need for policy and policy-making procedures that promote resilience and sustainability. In this paper, we foc... Read More about Managing the marine environment: is the DPSIR framework holistic enough?.

Early life stages of fishes as indicators of estuarine ecosystem health (2011)
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Ramos, S., Amorim, E., Elliott, M., Cabral, H., & Bordalo, A. A. (2012). Early life stages of fishes as indicators of estuarine ecosystem health. Ecological Indicators, 19, 172-183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.08.024

A major goal of current environmental policies is to preserve or return areas to a good ecological status, which should be assessed at the ecosystem level, using several biological elements, together with physical, chemical and pollution elements. Th... Read More about Early life stages of fishes as indicators of estuarine ecosystem health.

Recommendations on methods for the detection and control of biological pollution in marine coastal waters (2011)
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Olenin, S., Elliott, M., Bysveen, I., Culverhouse, P. F., Daunys, D., Dubelaar, G. B., Gollasch, S., Goulletquer, P., Jelmert, A., Kantor, Y., Mézeth, K. B., Minchin, D., Occhipinti-Ambrogi, A., Olenina, I., & Vandekerkhove, J. (2011). Recommendations on methods for the detection and control of biological pollution in marine coastal waters. Marine pollution bulletin, 62(12), 2598-2604. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.08.011

Adverse effects of invasive alien species (IAS), or biological pollution, is an increasing problem in marine coastal waters, which remains high on the environmental management agenda. All maritime countries need to assess the size of this problem and... Read More about Recommendations on methods for the detection and control of biological pollution in marine coastal waters.

Challenging paradigms in estuarine ecology and management (2011)
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Elliott, M., & Whitfield, A. (2011). Challenging paradigms in estuarine ecology and management. Estuarine, coastal and shelf science, 94(4), 306-314. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2011.06.016

For many years, estuarine science has been the 'poor relation' in aquatic research - freshwater scientists ignored estuaries as they tended to get confused by salt and tides, and marine scientists were more preoccupied by large open systems. Estuarie... Read More about Challenging paradigms in estuarine ecology and management.

Biological responses to contaminants in the Humber Estuary: disentangling complex relationships (2011)
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García-Alonso, J., Greenway, G., Munshi, A., Gómez, J., Mazik, K., Knight, A. W., Hardege, J., & Elliott, M. (2011). Biological responses to contaminants in the Humber Estuary: disentangling complex relationships. Marine environmental research, 71(4), 295-303. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2011.02.004

Due to the ecological importance of estuaries, it is necessary to understand the biological effects that potentially toxic contaminants induce in bioindicator species. A key aspect is whether effects at lower levels of biological organisation transfe... Read More about Biological responses to contaminants in the Humber Estuary: disentangling complex relationships.

Response of single benthic metrics and multi-metric methods to anthropogenic pressure gradients, in five distinct European coastal and transitional ecosystems (2011)
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Borja, A., Barbone, E., Basset, A., Borgersen, G., Brkljacic, M., Elliott, M., Garmendia, J. M., Marques, J. C., Mazik, K., Muxika, I., Neto, J. M., Norling, K., Rodríguez, J. G., Rosati, I., Rygg, B., Teixeira, H., & Trayanova, A. (2011). Response of single benthic metrics and multi-metric methods to anthropogenic pressure gradients, in five distinct European coastal and transitional ecosystems. Marine pollution bulletin, 62(3), 499-513. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2010.12.009

In recent times many benthic indices have been proposed to assess the ecological quality of marine waters worldwide. In this study we compared single metrics and multi-metric methods to assess coastal and transitional benthic status along human press... Read More about Response of single benthic metrics and multi-metric methods to anthropogenic pressure gradients, in five distinct European coastal and transitional ecosystems.

Management of the marine environment: Integrating ecosystem services and societal benefits with the DPSIR framework in a systems approach (2011)
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Atkins, J. P., Burdon, D., Elliott, M., & Gregory, A. J. (2011). Management of the marine environment: Integrating ecosystem services and societal benefits with the DPSIR framework in a systems approach. Marine pollution bulletin, 62(2), 215-226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2010.12.012

Ever increasing and diverse use of the marine environment is leading to human-induced changes in marine life, habitats and landscapes, making necessary the development of marine policy that considers all members of the user community and addresses cu... Read More about Management of the marine environment: Integrating ecosystem services and societal benefits with the DPSIR framework in a systems approach.