Use of different approaches to model presence/absence of Salmo marmoratus in Piedmont (Northwestern Italy)

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 234-242

  Tirelli, Tina ^a   Pozzi, Luca ^b   Pessani, Daniela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Decision tree; Discriminant function analysis; Logistic regression; Sensitivity analysis; Species prediction

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALMONID; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; PIEDMONT [ITALY]; PO RIVER; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

SALMO MARMORATUS; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 69749114049     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2009.07.003     Document Type: Article

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