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A review of strategies to monitor water and sediment quality for a sustainability assessment of marine environment

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Abstract

The basic aim of this work is (1) to review and present practically operational requirements for a sustainability assessment of marine environment, such as describing the monitoring process, research approaches, objectives, guidelines, and indicators and (2) to illustrate how physico-chemical and biological indicators can be practically applied, to assess water and sediment quality in marine and coastal environment. These indicators should meet defined criteria for practical usefulness, e.g. they should be simple to understand and apply to managers and scientists with different educational backgrounds. This review aimed to encapsulate that variability, recognizing that meaningful guidance should be flexible enough to accommodate the widely differing characteristics of marine ecosystems.

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The authors hereby confess that the instruments utilized for this research work is taken from biology and chemistry laboratory, Department of biology, University of Malaya. The authors’ gratitude goes to support of University Malaya High Impact Research grant (HIR) with project number UM.C/625/1/HIR/162.

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    Seyedeh Belin Tavakoly Sany, Rosli Hashim & Aishah Salleh

  2. Food Quality and Safety Research Department, Food Science and Technology Research Institute, ACECR Mashhad Branch, Mashhad, 91775-1376, Iran

    Seyedeh Belin Tavakoly Sany & Majid Rezayi

  3. Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, University Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Majid Rezayi

  4. Faculty of Natural Resources and Environment, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

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Tavakoly Sany, S.B., Hashim, R., Rezayi, M. et al. A review of strategies to monitor water and sediment quality for a sustainability assessment of marine environment. Environ Sci Pollut Res 21, 813–833 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-013-2217-5

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  • Water quality
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  • Marine environment