Estimating species tolerance to human perturbation: Expert judgment versus empirical approaches

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1623-1635

  Segurado, Pedro ^a   Santos, José Maria ^a   Pont, Didier ^b   Melcher, Andreas H ^c   Jalon, Diego Garcia ^d   Hughes, Robert M ^e   Ferreira, Maria Teresa ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

^b Procédés biotechnologiques au service de l'environnement   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^e OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic pressures; Ecological indicators; Environmental variability; Mediterranean freshwater fish; Niche modelling; Weighted averaging

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC PRESSURES; ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABILITY; FRESHWATER FISHES; NICHE MODELLING; WEIGHTED AVERAGING;

ECOLOGY; ESTIMATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FISH;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOINDICATOR; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; FISH; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NATIVE SPECIES; NICHE BREADTH; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TOLERANCE;

EUROPE;

EID: 79958149358     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.04.006     Document Type: Article

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