Improving the accuracy of aquatic macroinvertebrate trait assignment - the importance of taxon-weighting

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 885-894

  Monaghan, Kieran A ^a   Soares, Amadeu M V M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ORGANISM; DATA SET; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MACROINVERTEBRATE; SAMPLING; TAXONOMY;

EID: 84878810047     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: 12057533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjfas-2012-0402     Document Type: Article

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