Comparison of Stream Invertebrate Response Models for Bioassessment Metrics

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 570-583

  Waite, Ian R ^a   Kennen, Jonathan G ^a   May, Jason T ^a   Brown, Larry R ^a   Cuffney, Thomas F ^b   Jones, Kimberly A ^a   Orlando, James L ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b S Geological Survey   (United States)

Author keywords

Land use; Macroinvertebrates; Modeling; Prediction; Statistical assessment; Watershed disturbance

Indexed keywords

BIOASSESSMENT; BLUE MOUNTAIN; BOOSTED REGRESSION TREES; CALIFORNIA; CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREE; ECOREGIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; LAND USE/LAND COVER; MACROINVERTEBRATES; MODELING TECHNIQUE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; RANDOM FORESTS; RESPONSE MODEL; SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL ASSESSMENT; STREAM INVERTEBRATES; WATERSHED DISTURBANCES; WILLAMETTE;

DECISION TREES; FORECASTING; FORESTRY; LAND USE; LINEAR REGRESSION; MODELS;

LANDFORMS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOASSAY; CALIBRATION; DISTURBANCE; ECOREGION; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RANDOM WALK METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAM; WATERSHED;

CALIFORNIA; DATA PROCESSING; LAND USE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OREGON; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WATER SHEDS;

BLUE MOUNTAINS [UNITED STATES]; CALIFORNIA; OREGON; UNITED STATES; WILLAMETTE VALLEY;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84861805915     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: 17521688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2011.00632.x     Document Type: Article

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