Modelling the factors that influence fish guilds composition using a back-propagation network: Assessment of metrics for indices of biotic integrity

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 160, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 281-290

  Ibarra, Alonso Aguilar ^a   Gevrey, Muriel ^b   Park, Young Seuk ^b   Lim, Puy ^a   Lek, Sovan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Aquatic resources management; Artificial neural networks; Fish species richness; Freshwater fish assemblages

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BACK PROPAGATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GUILD STRUCTURE; ICHTHYOFAUNA; INDEX OF BIOTIC INTEGRITY;

FRANCE;

EID: 0037442836     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(02)00259-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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