Coupling GIS and mulitvariate approaches to reference site selection for wadeable stream monitoring

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 127, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 29-45

  Collier, Kevin J ^a   Haigh, Andy ^b   Kelly, Johlene ^a  

^a Environment Waikato   (New Zealand)

^b GIServices   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Classification; Geographic Information Systems; Multi metric analysis; New Zealand

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; NEW ZEALAND; PROBABILITY;

BIOMONITORING; INVERTEBRATE COMMUNITIES; MULTI-METRIC ANALYSIS; UPSTREAM CATCHMENT; WADEABLE STREAM MONITORING;

CATCHMENTS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOMONITORING; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GIS; INVERTEBRATE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SITE SELECTION;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER NETWORK; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOLLOW UP; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; INVERTEBRATE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STANDARDIZATION; VEGETATION; NEW ZEALAND; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RIVER;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

INVERTEBRATA;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW ZEALAND; RIVERS;

EID: 33847674482     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-006-9256-z     Document Type: Article

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