Total phosphorus inference models and indices for coastal plain streams based on benthic diatom assemblages from artificial substrates

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 610, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 139-152

  Ponader, Karin C ^a,b   Charles, Donald F ^a   Belton, Thomas J ^c   Winter, Diane M ^a,d  

^a ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Diatoms; Index; Inference model; New Jersey; Nutrients; Rivers

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; CLAY MINERALS; CURVE FITTING; DECISION MAKING; FOOD PROCESSING; LANDFORMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; NITROGEN; NONMETALS; PHOSPHORUS; RANDOM VARIABLES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

ARTIFICIAL SUBSTRATES; BENTHIC DIATOMS; CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES; COASTAL PLAINS; INFERENCE MODELS; MONITOR (CO); MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS (MVA); NEW JERSEY; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENTS; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARE (PLS); PREDICTIVE ABILITIES; REGRESSION (R2); RESCALING; SPECIES COMPOSITIONS; TOTAL NITROGEN (TN); TOTAL PHOSPHORUS (TR);

ATOMS;

ARTIFICIAL SUBSTRATE; CALIBRATION; COASTAL PLAIN; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DATA SET; DIATOM; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PHOSPHORUS; STREAMWATER;

NEW JERSEY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 46749119761     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-008-9429-6     Document Type: Article

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