What is it about?
Microbial assemblages (from viruses to microbial-sized metazoa) provide a major contribution to global biodiversity and play a crucial role in the functioning of marine ecosystems, but are largely ignored by the Marine Strategy Framework Directive.
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Perspectives
This review offers a new point of view on the potential of microbial communites as descriptors of environmental quality.
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 assemblages for environmental quality assessment: Knowledge, gaps and usefulness in the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive, Critical Reviews in Microbiology, November 2015, Informa Healthcare,
DOI: 10.3109/1040841x.2015.1087380.
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