H.L. Rees

TL;DR: In this article, two complementary surveys of the benthos around the United Kingdom coastline and oVshore are described, one by day grab at several stations around the England and Wales coastline as part of a wider interdisciplinary assessment of environmental quality by the regulatory authorities.

TL;DR: Boyd et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the effects of different levels of dredging intensity on the recolonization of benthic fauna and sediments at a commercial dredging site.

TL;DR: Any assessment of the consequences of dredged material disposal to the coastal environment must take account of site-specific variation in prevailing hydrographic regimes and in ecological status, along with information on the disposal activity itself (mode, timing, quantity, frequency and type of material).

TL;DR: In this article, a study was conducted between 1997 and 1999 to investigate meiofauna assemblages from selected inshore and offshore locations around the UK coast, and the main objective was to relate the differences in meio-fauna distribution patterns to a number of measured environmental variables and to establish more clearly the sensitivity of meio fauna communities to anthropogenic disturbance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the structure and interrelationships of North Sea benthic invertebrate and fish communities and their underlying environmental drivers are analyzed to identify and compare spatial patterns in community structure, and relate these to environmental variables.