Alternative ways to use and evaluate Kohler's ordinal scale to assess aquatic macrophyte abundance

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 20, Issue , 2012, Pages 238-243

  Engloner, Attila I ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Macrophyte indices; Metrizing ordinal information; Ordinal scale; River ecosystems

Indexed keywords

APPLIED ANALYSIS; AQUATIC MACROPHYTES; AQUATIC VEGETATION; ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS; CONVERSION METHODS; CONVERSION PROCEDURES; DATA EVALUATION; DATA SETS; DESCRIPTORS; MACROPHYTES; MATHEMATICAL PROCEDURES; MEAN VALUES; METRIC VALUES; NUMERICAL INFORMATION; ORDINAL DATA; ORDINAL INFORMATION; ORDINAL SCALE; RATIO SCALE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; RIVER SECTION; RUNNING WATERS; SCALE TYPE; SPECIES ABUNDANCE;

SURVEYS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

AQUATIC PLANT; DATA SET; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; MACROPHYTE; ORDINATION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RESEARCH WORK; RIVER SYSTEM;

EID: 84858381939     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2012.02.023     Document Type: Article

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