Evaluation of and insights from ALFISH: A spatially explicit, landscape-level simulation of fish populations in the Everglades

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 520, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 73-86

  Gaff, Holly ^a,f   Chick, John ^b   Trexler, Joel ^c   DeAngelis, Donald ^d   Gross, Louis ^e   Saunas, René ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^c FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d US Geol Surv/Biol Rsrc Div   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^f Dynamics Technology Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Everglades; Fish; Freshwater marshes; Model evaluation; Model validation; Spatially explicit model

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; HYDROLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WATER RESOURCES;

FIELD DATA; FLORIDA EVERGLADES REGION; POND LOCATIONS;

BIODIVERSITY;

ICHTHYOFAUNA; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION MODELING; SIMULATION;

EVERGLADES; FLORIDA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ICHTHYOFAUNA;

EID: 3242879553     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:HYDR.0000027728.98923.e7     Document Type: Article

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