Regional fish community indicators of landscape disturbance to catchments of the conterminous United States

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 26, Issue , 2013, Pages 163-173

  Esselman, Peter C ^a   Infante, Dana M ^a   Wang, Lizhu ^b   Cooper, Arthur R ^a   Wieferich, Daniel ^a   Tsang, Yin Phan ^a   Thornbrugh, Darren J ^a   Taylor, William W ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b International Joint Commission   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boosted regression; Fish communities; Large scale multimetric index; River assessment

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; BIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT; BIOLOGICAL COMMUNITY; BOOSTED REGRESSION; BOOSTED REGRESSION TREES; COMPONENT METRICS; CONTINENTAL SCALE; DATA SETS; ECOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; ECOREGIONS; FISH COMMUNITIES; HIGH PRECISION; INDEX VALUES; LANDSCAPE DISTURBANCE; LANDSCAPE INFLUENCES; LARGE REGIONS; METRIC VALUES; MULTIMETRIC INDEX; NATURAL GRADIENT; RIVER MANAGEMENT; SCREENING TESTS; TESTING HYPOTHESIS;

CATCHMENTS; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

FISH;

BIOASSAY; BIOINDICATOR; CATCHMENT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DATA SET; DISTURBANCE; FISH; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; INDEX OF BIOTIC INTEGRITY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVER MANAGEMENT;

ECOLOGY; EVALUATION; FISHES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84871593205     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2012.10.028     Document Type: Article

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