Soil total phosphorus threshold in the Everglades: A Bayesian changepoint analysis for multinomial response data

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 29-37

  Qian, Song S ^a   Pan, Yangdong ^b   King, Ryan S ^c  

^a Cadmus Group Inc   (United States)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Everglades; Soil; Species composition data

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; EUTROPHICATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHOSPHORUS; SAMPLING; SOILS; WETLANDS;

EVERGLADES; SPECIES COMPOSITION DATA;

ECOSYSTEMS;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; EUTROPHICATION; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PHOSPHORUS; WETLAND;

EVERGLADES; FLORIDA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 1242308508     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2003.11.005     Document Type: Article

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