The BENTIX Index
Highlights The BENTIX index, developed in HCMR by Simboura & Zenetos, 2002 is nowadays one among the most common ecological quality indices used worldwide and especially in the Mediterranean Sea for the assessment of soft bottom benthic macroinvertebrates’ communities quality status. The original publication (search up to October 2019) has been cited 976 times under …
The NEAT Tool
NEAT (Nested Environmental Status Assessment) is an integrative methodological tool, which has been developed in the framework of the FP7 EU Project DEVOTES, coordinated by Dr. Angel Borja, AZTI – Tecnalia, Pasaia (Spain), and is being used to assess different ecosystem components and geographical areas. The tool uses a combination of high-level integration of habitats …
The EEI index
According to Orfanidis et al. (2001, 2003) the Ecological Evaluation Index (EEI) was designed to estimate the Ecological Quality Status (EQS) of transitional and coastal waters, as defined in the Water Framework Directive (WFD, 2000/60/EC). Marine benthic macrophytes (seaweeds, seagrasses) were used as bioindicators of ecosystem shifts due to anthropogenic stress, from the pristine state …