Predicting future ecological degradation based on modelled thresholds

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 413, Issue , 2010, Pages 291-304

  Fairweather, Peter G ^a   Lester, Rebecca E ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coorong; Ecosystem states; Empirical anticipation; Environmental futures; Physico chemical transitions; South Australia; Statistical modelling; Water allocation

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; NATURAL RESOURCE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL APPLICATION; WATER BUDGET;

AUSTRALIA; COORONG; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 77957353075     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08633     Document Type: Article

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