The relative importance of physicochemical factors to stream biological condition in urbanizing basins: Evidence from multimodel inference

Freshwater Science

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 154-166

  Bryant, W L ^a   Carlisle, D M ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

AIC; Biological quality; Model selection; Streams; Stressors; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; ALGA; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; MACROINVERTEBRATE; METROPOLITAN AREA; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; STREAMWATER; URBANIZATION; WATER QUALITY;

ALGAE;

EID: 84878327455     PISSN: 21619549     EISSN: 21619565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1899/10-131.1     Document Type: Article

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