Nutrient scaling for assessing eutrophication: The development of a simulated normal distribution

Ecological Applications

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 303-309

  Stefanou, Petros ^a   Tsirtsis, George ^a   Karydis, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aegean Sea; Coastal areas; Eutrophication assessment; Greece; Nitrate concentration; Nutrient concentrations; Physical normal distribution; Probabilistic procedure; Simulated normal distribution; Trophic condition

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; EUTROPHICATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034142051     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2000)010[0303:NSFAET]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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