Using decision trees to predict benthic communities within and near the German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the North Sea

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 136, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 313-325

  Pesch, Roland ^a   Pehlke, Hendrik ^a   Jerosch, Kerstin ^b   Schröder, Winfried ^a   Schlüter, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VECHTA   (Germany)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Benthic habitat mapping; Benthos; Classification and Regression Trees (CART); Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ); Geostatistics; Multivariate statistics; North Sea

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; DECISION TREES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BENTHIC HABITAT MAPPING; BENTHOS; CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREES (CART); GEOSTATISTICS; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS; VARIOGRAM ANALYSIS;

MINERALS;

AMMONIA; NITRATE; PHOSPHATE; SILICATE;

AUTOCORRELATION; BENTHOS; GEOSTATISTICS; MODELING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VARIOGRAM;

ANISOTROPY; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BENTHOS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DECISION TREE; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; GERMANY; GRAIN; KRIGING; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALINITY;

ANIMALS; DECISION TREES; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GERMANY; MARINE BIOLOGY; NORTH SEA; SEASONS; SEAWATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 36549073241     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-007-9687-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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