Opening the black box of coastal inshore waters in the NW Mediterranean Sea: environmental quality tools and assessment

Memoria de tesis doctoral presentada por Eva Flo Arcas para optar al grado de Doctora en Ciencias Marinas por la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) y la Universitat de Barcelona (UB), realizada bajo la dirección del Dr. Jordi Camp Sancho del Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC).-- 370 pages[EN] Coastal inshore waters (CIW) are defined as the area of coastal waters between 0 and 200 m from the shoreline. They represent < 1% of coastal waters but are of high ecological, social, and economic importance. However, these waters have been scarcely studied, they are poorly understood. The time series database of the National Catalan Coastal Water Monitoring Program, ongoing since 1990, has allowed characterization of the CIW in the NW Mediterranean Sea. [...][CAT] Les aigües costaneres interiors (CIW) són aquelles localitzades entre 0 i 200 m del litoral. Representen només un