What is it about?
This study aims at reviewing the main issues where prokaryotic variables find useful application as descriptors of environmental status, trying to develop a panel of prokaryotic indicators suitable for the environmental quality assessment.
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Why is it important?
Prokaryotic variables could successfully be applied as indicators for ecological quality assessment of marine ecosystems within several Marine Strategy Framework Directive Descriptors, notably D1 (Biological Diversity), D4 (Food webs), D5 (Eutrophication), D8 (Contaminants), and D9 (Contaminants in seafood).
Perspectives
The prokaryotic assemblage has the potential to function as indicator of ecosystem health and thus it should be included in biodiversity and ecological quality monitoring programmes.
Dr Gabriella Caruso
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienze Polari (CNR-ISP) Messina, Italy
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This page is a summary of: Microbial community and its potential as descriptor of environmental status: Table 1., ICES Journal of Marine Science, June 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP),
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsw101.
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