Using classification trees to analyze the impact of exotic species on the ecological assessment of polder lakes in Flanders, Belgium

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 222, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 2202-2212

  Everaert, Gert ^a   Boets, Pieter ^a   Lock, Koen ^a   Džeroski, Sašo ^b   Goethals, Peter L M ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Brackish water; Classification tree; Ecological assessment; Exotic species; Gammarus tigrinus; Potamopyrgus antipodarum

Indexed keywords

BRACKISH WATER; CLASSIFICATION TREE; ECOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT; EXOTIC SPECIES; GAMMARUS; POTAMOPYRGUS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); ECOLOGY; INVESTMENTS; LAKES; PLANNING; RATING; WATER QUALITY;

PLANT EXTRACTS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOMONITORING; BRACKISH WATER; CLASSIFICATION; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRUSTACEAN; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INVASIVE SPECIES; MACROBENTHOS; MOLLUSC; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TREE; WATER QUALITY;

BELGIUM; FLANDERS;

CRUSTACEA; GAMMARUS; GAMMARUS TIGRINUS; MOLLUSCA; POTAMOPYRGUS ANTIPODARUM;

EID: 79959335585     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.08.013     Document Type: Article

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