Rediscovering the species in community-wide predictive modeling

Ecological Applications

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1449-1460

  Olden, Julian D ^a   Joy, Michael K ^b   Death, Russell G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Assemblage types; Bioassessment; Biomonitoring; Classification then modeling approach; Community classification; Freshwater fish; New Zealand; River InVertebrate Prediction and Classification System, RIVPACS

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOMONITORING; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND;

EID: 33747102371     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: 10510761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2006)016[1449:RTSICP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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