Addressing the removal of rare species in multivariate bioassessments: The impact of methodological choices

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 18, Issue , 2012, Pages 82-90

  Poos, Mark S ^a   Jackson, Donald A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b GREAT LAKES LABORATORY FOR FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bioassessment; Community ecology; Multivariate analysis; Ordination; Procrustes analysis; Rare species; Resemblance measures

Indexed keywords

BIOASSESSMENT; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; ORDINATION; PROCRUSTES ANALYSIS; RARE SPECIES; RESEMBLANCE MEASURES;

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOLOGICAL METHOD; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FISH; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORDINATION; RARE SPECIES; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; SHAPE ANALYSIS; ASSESSMENT METHOD; DATA SET; DECISION MAKING;

EID: 82655183853     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.10.008     Document Type: Article

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