Forecasting responses of seagrass distributions to changing water quality using monitoring data

Ecological Applications

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 474-489

  Fourqurean, James W ^a   Boyer, Joseph N ^a   Durako, Michael J ^b   Hefty, Lee N ^c   Peterson, Bradley J ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^c Miami Dade Dept Environ Rsrc M   (United States)

Author keywords

Discriminant function analysis; Florida Bay; Principal components analysis; Seagrass; Spatial pattern; Water quality

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD; MONITORING; SEAGRASS; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; WATER QUALITY;

FLORIDA; FLORIDA BAY; UNITED STATES;

HALODULE; HALODULE WRIGHTII; HALOPHILA; RUPPIA; RUPPIA MARITIMA; THALASSIA; THALASSIA TESTUDINUM;

EID: 0037701014     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2003)013[0474:FROSDT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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