Predicting community sensitivity to ozone, using Ellenberg Indicator values

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 744-753

  Jones, M Laurence M ^a   Hayes, Felicity ^a   Mills, Gina ^a   Sparks, Tim H ^a   Fuhrer, Jürg ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b Eidg Forschungsanstalt fur Agrarokologie und Landbau   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Jacknifing; Model; Pollution; Regression; Semi natural vegetation

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING;

COMMUNITY SENSITIVITY TO OZONE (CORI); ELLENBERG INDICATOR VALUES; FIELD BASED OZONE EXPOSURE; GRASSLANDS;

OZONE;

OZONE;

BIOINDICATOR; BIOMASS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRASSLAND; NUMERICAL MODEL; OZONE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PREDICTION;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COMMUNITY; ELLENBERG INDICATOR; EUROPE; EXPOSURE; GRASSLAND; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POLLUTION; PREDICTION; SALINITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPE; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OXIDANTS, PHOTOCHEMICAL; OZONE; PLANTS; POACEAE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 33847122945     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2006.03.035     Document Type: Article

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