Application of neural networks to prediction of fish diversity and salmonid production in the Lake Ontario basin

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 28-43

  McKenna Jr , James E ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; PRODUCTIVITY; SALMONID; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

GREAT LAKES; LAKE ONTARIO; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

SALMONIDAE;

EID: 13844306875     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/FT04-044.1     Document Type: Article

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