Classification tree models for predicting distributions of michigan stream fish from landscape variables

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 976-996

  Steen, Paul J ^a   Zorn, Troy G ^b   Seelbach, Paul W ^b   Schaeffer, Jeffrey S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; MAPPING METHOD; MODEL VALIDATION; MODELING; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

PISCES;

EID: 49049100238     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T07-119.1     Document Type: Article

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