Development and evaluation of predictive models for measuring the biological integrity of streams

Ecological Applications

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1456-1477

  Hawkins, Charles P ^a   Norris, Richard H ^b   Hogue, James N ^a   Feminella, Jack W ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bioassessment; Biological integrity; California; Invertebrates; Logging; Monitoring; Predictive models; RIVPACS; Species based vs. family based models; Streams; Water quality

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; MODELING; PREDICTION; STREAM;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034483546     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2000)010[1456:DAEOPM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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