Linking multimetric and multivariate approaches to assess the ecological condition of streams

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 157, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 113-124

  Collier, Kevin J ^a,b  

^a Environment Waikato   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bioassessment; Biomonitoring; Macroinvertebrate; New Zealand; Ordination

Indexed keywords

BIOASSESSMENT; BIOMONITORING; MACROINVERTEBRATE; NEW ZEALAND; ORDINATION;

CATCHMENTS; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

BIOINDICATOR; BIOMONITORING; INDEX OF BIOTIC INTEGRITY; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORDINATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STREAM;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BIOMETRY; BIOREMEDIATION; CALIBRATION; CATCHMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; HABITAT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOGGING; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MINING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REFERENCE VALUE; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SCORING SYSTEM; STREAM (RIVER); URBAN AREA;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; INVERTEBRATES; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLANTS; RIVERS;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 70349260855     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-008-0521-1     Document Type: Article

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