Principal component analysis: Development of a multivariate index for assessing eutrophication according to the European water framework directive

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 178-183

  Primpas, Ioannis ^a   Tsirtsis, George ^a   Karydis, Michael ^a   Kokkoris, Giorgos D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coastal waters; Eastern Mediterranean; Mutivariate statistics; Nutrients; Phytoplankton

Indexed keywords

AEGEAN SEA; COASTAL WATERS; CRITICAL THRESHOLD; DATA SETS; DISCRIMINATING POWER; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; EUROPEAN WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE; EUTROPHICATION ASSESSMENT; FIRST PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; INTERCORRELATION; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; MULTIVARIATE DATA; MUTIVARIATE STATISTICS; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATIONS; PHYTOPLANKTON BIOMASS; REDUCTION TECHNIQUES;

ALGAE CONTROL; BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA REDUCTION; EUTROPHICATION; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; NUTRIENTS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PORPHYRINS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

BIOMASS; COASTAL WATER; DATA SET; EUTROPHICATION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MESOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WATER QUALITY;

AEGEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 70449098936     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2009.04.007     Document Type: Article

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