Exploring the influence of lake water chemistry on chlorophyll a: A multivariate statistical model analysis

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 221, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 681-688

  Liu, Yong ^a,b   Guo, Huaicheng ^a   Yang, Pingjian ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Absolute principal component score (APCS); Chlorophyll a; Lake Qilu; Multivariate linear regression (MLR); Structural equation modeling (SEM)

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA-NITROGEN; CHLOROPHYLL A; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DECISION MAKERS; EIGENVALUES; INFLUENCE OF WATER; LAKEWATER CHEMISTRY; LATENT VARIABLE; MULTIVARIATE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL APPROACHES; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL MODELS; NEGATIVE INFLUENCE; OBSERVED DATA; PHYSICAL FACTORS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; SAMPLE COVARIANCE MATRIX; SEM; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; TOTAL PHOSPHORUS; TOXIC SUBSTANCES; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ALGAE CONTROL; ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHLOROPHYLL; COVARIANCE MATRIX; CYANIDES; DIFFUSERS (OPTICAL); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; EUTROPHICATION; LAKES; MINING; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PHOSPHORUS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PORPHYRINS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

LAKE POLLUTION;

AMMONIA; ARSENIC; CHLOROPHYLL A; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EIGENVALUE; EUTROPHICATION; FLUORIDE; LAKE POLLUTION; LAKE WATER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHOSPHORUS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

CHINA; QILU LAKE; YUNNAN;

EID: 73949109319     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.03.010     Document Type: Article

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