Application of the exergy index as ecological indicator of organically enrichment areas in the Mar Menor lagoon (south-eastern Spain)

The increase of stress induced changes in marine environments caused by different types of marine pollution made necessary the search for indicators that assist in assessing pollution effects at the community level. The main goals, with a view to an effective management, are the early detection and evaluation of environmental responses to pollution and to avoid or mitigate negative impacts that different uses may generate.

[1]  Michael McAleer,et al.  Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation , 1995 .

[2]  Sven Erik Jørgensen.  Review and comparison of goal functions in system ecology , 1994 .

[3]  Søren Nors Nielsen,et al.  Strategies for structural-dynamic modelling , 1992 .

[4]  S. E. Jørgensen,et al.  Does the intermediate disturbance hypothesis comply with thermodynamics? , 1996, Hydrobiologia.

[5]  Sven Erik Jørgensen,et al.  Emergy, environ, exergy and ecological modelling , 1995 .

[6]  Sven Erik Jørgensen,et al.  Analysis of the properties of exergy and biodiversity along an estuarine gradient of eutrophication , 1997 .

[7]  Joel S. O'Connor,et al.  Indices of marine degradation: Their utility , 1986 .

[8]  S. Jørgensen,et al.  Opinion – Thermodynamics and Eecosystem Theory, Case Studies from Hydrobiology , 2001, Hydrobiologia.

[9]  P. Keddy.  Quantifying a within-lake gradient of wave energy in Gillfillan Lake, Nova Scotia , 1984 .

[10]  B. G. Murray.  Are ecological and evolutionary theories scientific? , 2001, Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.

[11]  M. Rounsevell,et al.  Ecotargets, goal functions and orientors , 1998 .

[12]  Estudio ecológico y bionómico de los poblamientos bentónicos del Mar Menor (Murcia, S. E. de España) / Angel Pérez Ruzafa ; director Joandomenec Ros Aragonés. , 1989 .

[13]  Sven Erik Jørgensen,et al.  A holistic approach to ecological modelling , 1979 .

[14]  Sven Erik Jørgensen,et al.  Applying Thermodynamic Orientors: The Use of Exergy as an Indicator in Environmental Management , 1998 .

[15]  W. Nelson.  Prospects for Development of an Index of Biotic Integrity for Evaluating Habitat Degradation in Coastal Systems , 1990 .

[16]  S. Nielsen.  Modelling structural dynamical changes in a Danish shallow lake , 1994 .

[17]  J S Gray,et al.  Pollution-induced changes in populations. , 1979, Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences.

[18]  G. E. Fogg,et al.  Methods for the Study of Marine Benthos. , 1972 .

[19]  Sven Erik Jørgensen,et al.  Nuclear DNA in the determination of weighing factors to estimate exergy from organisms biomass , 2000 .

[20]  Fuliu Xu,et al.  Exergy and structural exergy as ecological indicators for the development state of the Lake Chaohu ecosystem , 1997 .

[21]  Edward D. Goldberg,et al.  The health of the oceans , 1976 .

[22]  R. Warwick,et al.  Environmental impact studies on marine communities: Pragmatical considerations , 1993 .

[23]  S. Nielsen.  Application of exergy in structural-dynamical modelling , 1990 .