Relationships between three major stream assemblages and their environmental factors in multiple spatial scales

Annales de Limnologie

Volumn 47, Issue , 2011, Pages S91-S105

  Bae, Mi Jung ^a   Kwon, Yongsu ^a   Hwang, Soon Jin ^b   Chon, Tae Soo ^c   Yang, Hyung Jae ^d   Kwak, In Sil ^e   Park, Jung Ho ^f   Ham, Soon A ^e   Park, Young Seuk ^a  

^a Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^b Konkuk University   (South Korea)

^c Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^d National Institute of Environmental Research   (South Korea)

^e Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^f Dong Lim P and D   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Biological indices; Concordance of taxa; Multimetric; Random forest; Self organizing map

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; ASSESSMENT METHOD; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CORRELATION; DIATOM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FILTER; FISH; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HYDROLOGY; LAND COVER; MACROINVERTEBRATE; PHOSPHORUS; SELF ORGANIZATION; SLOPE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAM; TAXONOMY; WATER QUALITY;

KOREA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 79960933288     PISSN: 00034088     EISSN: 2100000X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/limn/2011022     Document Type: Article

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