Discrimination of fish populations using parasites: Random Forests on a predictable host-parasite system

Parasitology

Volumn 137, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1833-1847

  Perez Del Olmo A ^a   Montero, F E ^b   Fernndez, M ^c   Barrett, J ^d   Raga, J A ^c   Kostadinova, A ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^d ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^f INSTITUTE OF BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Boops boops; fish population discrimination; Mediterranean; North East Atlantic; parasites as tags; predictive models; Random Forests

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ARTICLE; FISH; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NONHUMAN; POPULATION BIOLOGY; POPULATION MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM FOREST; SAMPLE SIZE; SEASONAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPAIN;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ECOSYSTEM; FISH DISEASES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PARASITES; PERCIFORMES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPAIN;

BOOPS BOOPS;

EID: 78650513320     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182010000739     Document Type: Article

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