Classification of the Caspian Sea coastal waters based on trophic index and numerical analysis

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 164, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 349-356

  Shahrban, Mahshid ^a   Etemad Shahidi, Amir ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cluster; Coastal water; Discriminate analysis; TRIX; Trophic state

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PARAMETER; CASPIAN SEA; COASTAL WATERS; DISCRIMINATE ANALYSIS; MESOTROPHIC; NUMERICAL CLASSIFICATION; STUDY AREAS; TROPHIC CONDITIONS; TROPHIC STATE;

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ECOLOGY;

AMMONIA; CHLOROPHYLL A; NITRATE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE;

AMMONIUM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COASTAL WATER; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; NITRATE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; NUMERICAL METHOD; TROPHIC LEVEL; WATER QUALITY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COASTAL WATERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; SPRING; SUMMER; TROPHIC LEVEL; WATER QUALITY;

EUTROPHICATION; SEAWATER;

CASPIAN SEA;

EID: 77952288158     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-009-0897-6     Document Type: Article

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