A comparison of relative abundance versus class data in diatom-based quantitative reconstructions

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1380-1388

  Adler, Sven ^a   Hübener, Thomas ^a   Dreßler, Mirko ^a   Lotter, André F ^b   Anderson, N John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diatoms; Ordinal class data; Paleolimnology; Relative abundance data; TP reconstruction; Transfer functions

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; ECOLOGY; IMAGE RECOGNITION; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; WATER QUALITY;

DATA CLASS; DIATOM; ORDINAL CLASS DATA; PHOSPHOROUS CONCENTRATIONS; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE DATA; SEDIMENT CORE; SPECIES ABUNDANCE; TOTAL PHOSPHOROUS; TOTAL PHOSPHOROUS-RECONSTRUCTION;

LAKES;

PHOSPHORUS;

DIATOM; DOMINANCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; TRANSFER FUNCTION; WATER QUALITY;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENMARK; DIATOM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GERMANY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; SWITZERLAND; TEMPERATURE;

DENMARK; GERMANY; SWITZERLAND;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 77950922347     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2010.02.020     Document Type: Article

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