A regional classification scheme for estimating reference water quality in streams using land-use-adjusted spatial regression-tree analysis

Environmental Management

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 209-229

  Robertson, Dale M ^a   Saad, David A ^a   Heisey, Dennis M ^b  

^a WISCONSIN WATER SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Ecoregions; Land use; Nutrients; Regionalization; Regression tree

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ESTIMATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LAND USE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CLASSIFICATIONS; ECOREGIONS; NUTRIENTS; REGIONALIZATION; REGRESSION TREE;

WATER QUALITY;

WATER;

CATCHMENT; CLASSIFICATION; ECOREGION; LAND USE; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; LAND USE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL REGRESSION TREE ANALYSIS; STREAM (RIVER); UNITED STATES; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATER STANDARD;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; PHOSPHORUS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 31544468754     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-005-0022-8     Document Type: Article

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