Classification of macroinvertebrate communities across drainage basins in Victoria, Australia: Consequences of sampling on a broad spatial scale for predictive modelling

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 253-268

  Marchant, R ^a   Hirst, A ^a   Norris, R ^c   Metzeling, L ^b  

^a MUSEUM VICTORIA   (Australia)

^b VIC Environment Protection Authority   (Australia)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Drainage basins; Macroinvertebrate communities; Predictive modelling

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; MODEL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

CLASSIFICATION; DRAINAGE BASIN; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MODELING; SAMPLING;

EID: 0032893340     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.1999.00429.x     Document Type: Article

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