A reassessment of Fucacean communities next to a cancelled waste in the Northwest of Spain. Effects of the improvement of the environmental protection technology

摘要

The distribution of fucaceans is characteristic and well known in the Atlantic coasts of Western Europe. In 1976, biomass losses and the disruption in the zonation of fucaceans around a waste point of a pulp-mill factory situated in the Ria of Pontevedra (NW Spain) were published. After several efforts to improve the technological facilities to avoid environmental damages, the degree of recovery of those fucacean communities of the intertidal ecosystem after 12 years of waste management can be determined.