Fish recruitment prediction, using robust supervised classification methods

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 221, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 338-352

  Fernandes, Jose A ^a,b   Irigoien, Xabier ^a   Goikoetxea, Nerea ^a   Lozano, Jose A ^b   Inza, Iñaki ^b   Pérez, Aritz ^b   Bode, Antonio ^c  

^a MARINE RESEARCH DIVISION   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c Centro Nacional Instituto Español de Oceanografía   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anchovy; Climate; Discretization; Ecological modelling; Feature selection; Fish recruitment; Hake; Supervised classification

Indexed keywords

DISCRETIZATION; DISCRETIZATIONS; ECOLOGICAL MODELLING; FEATURE SELECTION; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

CLASSIFIERS; DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; FISH; FISHERIES; FORECASTING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MACHINE TOOLS; MEATS; RISK PERCEPTION;

EMPLOYMENT;

AUTOMATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLUPEOID; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESTIMATION METHOD; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; PROBABILITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ENGRAULIDAE; ENGRAULIS ENCRASICOLUS; MERLUCCIUS MERLUCCIUS; REXEA SOLANDRI;

EID: 70549106591     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.09.020     Document Type: Article

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