Performance of two southern California benthic community condition indices using species abundance and presence-only data: Relevance to DNA barcoding

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Ranasinghe, J Ananda ^a   Stein, Eric D ^a   Miller, Peter E ^b   Weisberg, Stephen B ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COASTAL WATER RESEARCH PROJECT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AZTI MARINE BIOTIC INDEX; BENTHIC RESPONSE INDEX; BENTHOS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DNA BARCODING; DNA LIBRARY; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; REFERENCE LIBRARY; SIMULATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TAXONOMY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODIVERSITY; CALIBRATION; CALIFORNIA; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; METALS; NITROGEN; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 84864721945     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040875     Document Type: Article

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