Using biological assemblage composition to infer the values of covarying environmental factors

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1159-1175

  Yuan, Lester L ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological inferences; Maximum likelihood; Sediment; Temperature; Weighted averaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248650159     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2007.01744.x     Document Type: Article

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