Assessment of rivers using diatoms: Effect of substrate and evaluation method

Fundamental and Applied Limnology

Volumn 179, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 267-279

  Mendes, Tânia ^a   Almeida, Salomé F P ^a   Feio, Maria J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Diatom index IPS; Diatoms; Predictive models; Substrates; Type of data

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DIATOM; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; LAND USE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVER WATER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STREAMWATER; SUBSTRATE; WATER QUALITY;

FRANCE; PORTUGAL;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; EPIPHYTON;

EID: 84875981877     PISSN: 18639135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/1863-9135/2012/0180     Document Type: Article

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