Ecosystem states: Creating a data-derived, ecosystem-scale ecological response model that is explicit in space and time

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 222, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 2690-2703

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

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Community ecology; Coorong; Environmental; Multivariate; Physico chemical; Water allocation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COORONG; ENVIRONMENTAL; MULTIVARIATE; PHYSICO-CHEMICALS; WATER ALLOCATION;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; MANAGERS; RANDOM ERRORS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); WATER RESOURCES;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ABUNDANCE; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; BENTHOS; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COEXISTENCE; DATA SET; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM APPROACH; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; HABITAT CONSERVATION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; INVERTEBRATE; MACROPHYTE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POPULATION DECLINE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; THRESHOLD; VERTEBRATE; WATER DEMAND;

AUSTRALIA;

AVES; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 79959654602     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.05.009     Document Type: Article

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