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The most important components of ecosystems are the biological components, and a full environmental impact assessment of ecosystems will therefore require that these components are seriously considered. It is, for instance, not sufficient to assess the water quality by use of physicochemical parameters, although their determination can be carried out much more rapidly. There exists, in general, a relation between species composition and water quality.
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Jørgensen, S.E. (1992). Ecological Indicators and Ecological Modelling. In: McKenzie, D.H., Hyatt, D.E., McDonald, V.J. (eds) Ecological Indicators. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4659-7_14
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