Neural network models to study relationships between lead concentration in grasses and permanent urban descriptors in Athens city (Greece)

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 120, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 157-165

  Dimopoulos, Ioannis ^a   Chronopoulos, J ^a   Chronopoulou Sereli, A ^a   Lek, Sovan ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Backpropagation; Heavy metal; Modelling; Multiple regression; Sensitivity analysis; Urban pollution

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; GRASS; LEAD; POLLUTION MONITORING; URBAN AREA;

GREECE;

CYNODON; CYNODON DACTYLON; POACEAE;

EID: 0033578441     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(99)00099-X     Document Type: Article

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