Classifying the biological condition of small streams: An example using benthic macroinvertebrates

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 869-884

  Maloney, Kelly O ^a   Weller, Donald E ^a   Russell, Marc J ^b   Hothorn, Torsten ^c  

^a SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Classification and regression trees (CART); Conditional inference; Land use; Landscape scale; Ordinal logistic regression; Prediction; Random forests; Stream condition

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956178223     PISSN: 08873593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1899/08-142.1     Document Type: Article

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