Development of data-driven models for the assessment of macroinvertebrates in rivers in Flanders

Modelling for Environment's Sake: Proceedings of the 5th Biennial Conference of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, iEMSs 2010

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 1948-1956

  Everaert, Gert ^a   Pauwels, Ine S ^a   Goethals, Peter L M ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biological water quality; Ecological modelling; Macroinvertebrates; Regression trees

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DATA; BIOLOGICAL WATER; DATA SETS; DATA-DRIVEN METHODS; DATA-DRIVEN MODEL; ECOLOGICAL BENEFITS; ECOLOGICAL MODELLING; ENVIRONMENT AGENCY; EUROPEAN WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE; FLANDERS; MACROINVERTEBRATES; OPTIMISATIONS; PREDICTIVE MODELS; REGRESSION TREES; RIVER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY MODELS;

ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; RATING; WATER QUALITY;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; RATING; TREES; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84858693192     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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