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Indicator summary

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Summary of indicator structure and function

Indicator

Attribute

Purpose

If restricted to taxa, list which ones

Ecosystem applicability

Identified capability

Biological classification level

Response variable

Drivers

Robustness

Composite multi-metric index (eg Index of biotic integrity (IBI), Estuarine Biotic Integrity index (EBI)

Community structure and function, Ecosystem structure and function

 

 

Potentially applicable to any marine system

 Aspirational

Community, Ecosystem

Species-based, Trophodynamic, Environmental

Environmental

Potentially high

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Whitfield, A.K., and M. Elliot. 2002. Fishes as indicators of environmental and ecological changes within estuaries: a review of progress and some suggestions for the future. Journal of Fish Biology 61 (Supp A): pp 229-250

 

Background reading

Fulton, E.A., Fuller,M., Smith, A.D.M., and Punt, A. (2004) Ecological indicators of the ecosystem effects of fishing: Final report. AFMA Final Research Report, report Number R99/1546.

 

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