Co-variation of fish assemblages, flow regimes and other habitat factors in French rivers

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 881-892

  Snelder, Ton H ^a   Lamouroux, Nicolas ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Boosted regression trees; Ecology; Flow regime; Hydrology; Regionalisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951720311     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02320.x     Document Type: Article

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