Use of landscape pattern metrics and multiscale data in aquatic species distribution models: A case study of a freshwater mussel

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 943-955

  Hopkins II, Robert L ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boosted regression trees; Freshwater mussels; Landscape; Modeling; Multiscale; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; POPULATION DECLINE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL QUALITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

NORTH AMERICA;

QUADRULA CYLINDRICA;

EID: 70350015019     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-009-9373-5     Document Type: Article

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