Benthic biodiversity near brine discharge sites in the Port of Rotterdam

Küpper, 2018, The future of marine biodiversity and marine ecosystem functioning in UK coastal and territorial waters (including UK Overseas Territories) – with an emphasis on marine macrophyte communities, Bot. Mar., 61, 521, 10.1515/bot-2018-0076 Forum, 2021 Panagopoulos, 2020, Environmental impacts of desalination and brine treatment - challenges and mitigation measures, Mar. Pollut. Bull., 161, 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111773 Lattemann, 2013, Marine monitoring surveys for desalination plants-a critical review, Desalination Water Treat., 51, 233, 10.1080/19443994.2012.694214 Lattemann, 2008, Environmental impact and impact assessment of seawater desalination, Desalination, 220, 1, 10.1016/j.desal.2007.03.009 Xevgenos, 2021, Aspects of environmental impacts of seawater desalination: Cyprus as a case study, Desalination Water Treat., 211, 15, 10.5004/dwt.2021.26916 Sadhwani, 2005, Case studies on environmental impact of seawater desalination, Desalination, 185, 1, 10.1016/j.desal.2005.02.072 Fernández-Torquemada, 2005, Effects of salinity on leaf growth and survival of the Mediterranean seagrass Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile, J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol., 320, 57, 10.1016/j.jembe.2004.12.019 Einav, 2002, The footprint of the desalination processes on the environment, Desalination, 152, 141, 10.1016/S0011-9164(02)01057-3 Hopner, 1996, Elements of environmental impact studies on the coastal desalination plants, Desalination, 108, 11, 10.1016/S0011-9164(97)00003-9 Clark, 2018, First large-scale ecological impact study of desalination outfall reveals trade-offs in effects of hypersalinity and hydrodynamics, Water Res., 145, 757, 10.1016/j.watres.2018.08.071 Belatoui, 2017, Environmental effects of brine discharge from two desalination plants in Algeria (South Western Mediterranean), Desalination Water Treat., 76, 311, 10.5004/dwt.2017.20812 de-la-Ossa-Carretero, 2016, Bioindicators as metrics for environmental monitoring of desalination plant discharges, Mar. Pollut. Bull., 103, 313, 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2015.12.023 Fernandez-Torquemada, 2013, Echinoderms as indicators of brine discharge impacts, Desalination Water Treat., 51, 567, 10.1080/19443994.2012.716609 Ruso, 2007, Spatial and temporal changes in infaunal communities inhabiting soft-bottoms affected by brine discharge, Mar. Environ. Res., 64, 492, 10.1016/j.marenvres.2007.04.003 Del-Pilar-Ruso, 2008, Effects of a brine discharge over soft bottom Polychaeta assemblage, Environ. Pollut., 156, 240, 10.1016/j.envpol.2007.12.041 Roberts, 2010, Impacts of desalination plant discharges on the marine environment: a critical review of published studies, Water Res., 44, 5117, 10.1016/j.watres.2010.04.036 Chesher, 1971, 99 Mandelli, 1975, The effects of desalination brines on Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin), Water Res., 9, 287, 10.1016/0043-1354(75)90050-0 Xevgenos, 2015, Sustainable management of brine effluent from desalination plants: the SOL-BRINE system, Desalination Water Treat., 53, 3151, 10.1080/19443994.2014.933621 Xevgenos, 2015, Design of an innovative vacuum evaporator system for brine concentration assisted by software tool simulation, Desalination Water Treat., 53, 3407, 10.1080/19443994.2014.948660 Xevgenos, 2016, An overview on desalination & sustainability: renewable energy-driven desalination and brine management, Desalination Water Treat., 57, 2304, 10.1080/19443994.2014.984927 Den Hartog, 1992, Why was the invasion of the river Rhine by Corophium curvispinum and Corbicula species so successful?, J. Nat. Hist., 26, 1121, 10.1080/00222939200770651 Smit, 1997, Ecosystem responses in the Rhine-Meuse delta during two decades after enclosure and steps toward estuary restoration, Estuaries, 20, 504, 10.2307/1352610 Wolff, 1973, The estuary as a habitat. An analysis of data on the soft-bottom macrofauna of the estuarine area of the rivers Rhine, Meuse and Scheldt, Zool. Verh. Leiden, 126, 1 ICPR 2000 2015 2013 2008 WISE, 2015 HELCOM, 2004 Rijkswaterstaat 2017 2008 Spanjers, 2018 Carrano, 2009, Boron and marine life: a New look at an enigmatic bioelement, Mar. Biotechnol., 11, 431, 10.1007/s10126-009-9191-4 Rijksoverheid, 2022 Alf, 2020 Southward, 2006 McDaniel, 2011 Parapar, 2018, Fauna Ibérica, vol. 45 García-París, 2004 Parapar Vegas, 2012 Moreira Da Rocha, 2015, Fauna Ibérica, vol. 41 Fauvel, 1923, vol. 5, 488 Lincoln, 1979, 658 Bellan-Santini, 1989, vol. 4, 959 Leuven, 1998, 241 Warmer, 2002 Schintu, 2016, Heavy metal accumulation in surface sediments at the port of Cagliari (Sardinia, western Mediterranean): environmental assessment using sequential extractions and benthic foraminifera, Mar. Pollut. Bull., 111, 45, 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.07.029 Turekian, 1961, Distribution of the elements in some major units of the Earth's crust, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 72, 175, 10.1130/0016-7606(1961)72[175:DOTEIS]2.0.CO;2 Birch, 2003, A scheme for assessing human impacts on coastal aquatic environments using sediments Borja, 2000, A marine biotic index to establish the ecological quality of soft-bottom Benthos within European estuarine and coastal environments, Mar. Pollut. Bull., 40, 1100, 10.1016/S0025-326X(00)00061-8 Grall, 1997, Using biotic indices to estimate macrobenthic community perturbations in the Bay of Brest, Estuarine, Coast. Shelf Sci., 44, 43, 10.1016/S0272-7714(97)80006-6 Borja, 2005, Guidelines for the use of AMBI (AZTI's Marine Biotic Index) in the assessment of the benthic ecological quality, Mar. Pollut. Bull., 50, 787, 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2005.04.040 Sørensen, 1936, Some ecosystematical characteristics determined by Raunkiær's circling method, 474 Ysebaert, 2003, Het beoordelen van de ecologische toestand van kust- en overgangswateren aan de hand van benthische macro-invertebraten (macrobenthos), 39 Agency Mayer, 1994, Surface area control of organic carbon accumulation in continental shelf sediments, Geochem. Cosmochim. Acta, 58, 1271, 10.1016/0016-7037(94)90381-6 Hosokawa, 2020, Spatial patterns of concentrations of Cu, Zn, Cd, and Pb in marine sediments from Japanese port areas, Reg. Stud. Mar. Sci., 35, 101135 Azadi, 2018, Contamination of lead (Pb) in the coastal sediments of north and south of Iran: a review study, Chem. Ecol., 1 Gokkus, 2019, Heavy metal pollution in Inebolu and Bartin Ports, Black sea, Turkey, Indian J. Geo Mar. Sci., 48, 1600 Cutroneo, 2017, Environmental complexity of a port: evidence from circulation of the water masses, and composition and contamination of bottom sediments, Mar. Pollut. Bull., 119, 184, 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.03.058 Jahan, 2017, Water quality assessment of Australian ports using water quality evaluation indices, PLoS One, 12, e0189284, 10.1371/journal.pone.0189284 Rogan Šmuc, 2018, Heavy metal signature and environmental assessment of nearshore sediments: Port of Koper (Northern Adriatic Sea), Geosciences, 8, 398, 10.3390/geosciences8110398 Markert, 2009, Recently established Crassostrea-reefs versus native Mytilus-beds: differences in ecosystem engineering affects the macrofaunal communities (Wadden Sea of Lower Saxony, southern German Bight), Biol. Invasions, 12, 15, 10.1007/s10530-009-9425-4 van Broekhoven, 2005 Christianen, 2018, Return of the native facilitated by the invasive? Population composition, substrate preferences and epibenthic species richness of a recently discovered shellfish reef with native European flat oysters (Ostrea edulis) in the North Sea, Mar. Biol. Res., 14, 590, 10.1080/17451000.2018.1498520 Walles, 2015, Demography of the ecosystem engineer Crassostrea gigas, related to vertical reef accretion and reef persistence, Estuar. Coast Shelf Sci., 154, 224, 10.1016/j.ecss.2015.01.006 Wrange, 2010, Massive settlements of the pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas, in Scandinavia, Biol. Invasions, 12, 1145, 10.1007/s10530-009-9535-z Ezgeta Balic, 2020, vol. 21, 11 Nehring, 2022, NOBANIS – invasive alien species fact sheet, Crassostrea gigas de Kluijver, 1994, Changes in the sublittoral hard substrate communities in the Oosterschelde estuary (SW Netherlands), caused by changes in the environmental parameters, Hydrobiologia, 282, 265, 10.1007/BF00024635 Van Hoey, 2007, The benthic ecosystem quality index (BEQI), intercalibration and assessment of Dutch coastal and transitional waters for the water framework directive: final report, 244 Raventos, 2006, Effect of brine discharge from a desalination plant on macrobenthic communities in the NW Mediterranean, Mar. Environ. Res., 62, 1, 10.1016/j.marenvres.2006.02.002 Riera, 2012, Variability of macrofaunal assemblages on the surroundings of a brine disposal, Desalination, 291, 94, 10.1016/j.desal.2012.02.003 Lykkebo Petersen, 2019, Biological and physical effects of brine discharge from the Carlsbad desalination plant and implications for future desalination plant constructions, Water, 11, 208, 10.3390/w11020208 Ysebaert, 1998, Zonation of intertidal macrobenthos in the estuaries of Schelde and Ems aquatic, Ecology, 32, 53 Ysebaert, 2003, Large-scale spatial patterns in estuaries: estuarine macrobenthic communities in the Schelde estuary, NW Europe, Estuarine, Coast. Shelf Sci., 57, 335, 10.1016/S0272-7714(02)00359-1 de Jong, 2015, Relationships between macrozoobenthos and habitat characteristics in an intensively used area of the Dutch coastal zone, ICES J. Mar. Sci., 72, 2409, 10.1093/icesjms/fsv060 Ysebaert, 1993, The benthic macrofauna along the estuarine gradient of the Schelde estuary, Neth. J. Aquat. Ecol., 27, 327, 10.1007/BF02334796 Ysebaert, 2005, Benthic variability in intertidal soft-sediments in the mesohaline part of the Schelde estuary, Hydrobiologia, 540, 197, 10.1007/s10750-004-7144-5 Wijnhoven, 2008, Historic developments in macrozoobenthos of the Rhine-Meuse estuary: from a tidal inlet to a freshwater lake, Estuar. Coast Shelf Sci., 76, 95, 10.1016/j.ecss.2007.06.006 Jensen, 1992, Mass mortality in 2 common soft-bottom invertebrates, Hydrobia ulvae and Corophium volutator - the possible role of trematodes, Helgol. Meeresunters., 46, 329, 10.1007/BF02367103 Michaud, 2006, The functional group approach to bioturbation: II. The effects of the Macoma balthica community on fluxes of nutrients and dissolved organic carbon across the sediment–water interface, J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol., 337, 178, 10.1016/j.jembe.2006.06.025 Grassle, 1974, Opportunistic life histories and genetic systems in marine benthic polychaetes, J. Mar. Res., 32, 253 Warren, 1977 Gray, 1981, 185 Michaelis, 1983, Intertidal benthic animal communities of the estuaries of the rivers Ems and Weser, Ecol. Waden Sea, 1 Robineau, 1984, Distribution des communautés macrobenthiques des substrats meubles de l’estuaire interne de la Loire (France), J. Rech. Oceanogr., 9, 146 McLusky, 1987, Intertidal habitats and benthic macrofauna of the Forth estuary, Scotland, Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinb. B Biol. Sci., 93, 389, 10.1017/S0269727000006837 Bruyne, 2013 Faasse, 2019, The non-indigenous window shell Theora lubrica Gould, 1861 (Bivalvia: Cardiida: Semelidae) in the delta area of the Netherlands, Basteria, 83, 52 Reish, 1955, The relation of polychaetous annelids to harbor pollution, Publ. Health Rep., 70, 1168, 10.2307/4589315 Johnston, 2005, 1 Klunder, 2019, Distribution of the dwarf surf clam Mulinia lateralis (Say, 1822) in the Wadden Sea after first introduction, 8, 818