Stream health index for the Puget Sound Lowland

Environmetrics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 285-307

  Chiu, Grace ^a,b   Guttorp, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bias and variability reduction; Biomonitoring; Biotic integrity; Metric scoring; Stream health

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; INDEX OF BIOTIC INTEGRITY; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STREAM; TAXONOMY;

NORTH AMERICA; PUGET LOWLAND; PUGET SOUND; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 33645957604     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.744     Document Type: Conference Paper

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