Watershed classification by discriminant analyses of lakewater-chemistry and terrestrial characteristics

Ecological Applications

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 497-507

  Momen, Bahram ^a   Zehr, Jonathan P ^a  

^a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Adirondack lakes; Discriminant analysis; Lakewater chemistry; Temporal change; Watershed classification

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031970806     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1998)008[0497:WCBDAO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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