Descriptive and prediction models of phytoplankton in the northern Adriatic

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 222, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 2502-2511

  Volf, Goran ^a   Atanasova, Nataša ^b,c   Kompare, Boris ^d   Precali, Robert ^e   Ožanić, Nevenka ^a  

^a University of Rijeka   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^c International Centre for Coastal Ecohydrology   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^e RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Eutrophication; Machine learning; Northern Adriatic; Phytoplankton descriptive model; Phytoplankton prediction model

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOMS; BIOLOGICAL PARAMETER; CROATIA; DATA SETS; DESCRIPTIVE MODEL; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; MACHINE-LEARNING; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MESOTROPHIC; NORTHERN ADRIATIC; NUTRIENT DISCHARGES; PHYTOPLANKTON DYNAMICS; PO RIVER; PREDICTION MODEL; PREDICTIVE MODELS; REGRESSION TREES; SET OF RULES;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EUTROPHICATION; FORECASTING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODELS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ALGAE CONTROL;

ALGAL BLOOM; DATA SET; DISCHARGE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EUTROPHICATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TROPHIC ENVIRONMENT;

ADRIATIC SEA; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PO DELTA; VENETO;

ALGAE;

EID: 79959342172     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.02.013     Document Type: Article

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