Applying additive modelling and gradient boosting to assess the effects of watershed and reach characteristics on riverine assemblages

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 116-128

  Maloney, Kelly O ^a,b   Schmid, Matthias ^c   Weller, Donald E ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Benthic macroinvertebrates; Diversity; Fish; Generalized additive models; Richness; Spatial autocorrelation; Streams

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867418169     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00124.x     Document Type: Article

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