A freshwater ecoregion delineation approach based on freshwater macroinvertebrate community features and spatial environmental data in Taizi River Basin, northeastern China

Ecological Research

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 581-592

  Kong, Weijing ^a   Meng, Wei ^a   Zhang, Yuan ^a   Gippel, Christopher ^b,c   Qu, Xiaodong ^a  

^a CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c Fluvial Systems Pty Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aquatic biota; Environmental variables; Freshwater ecoregion delineation; Spatial cluster; Taizi River Basin; Variables filtration

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; ANNUAL VARIATION; AQUATIC COMMUNITY; CLASSIFICATION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOREGION; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; MACROINVERTEBRATE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA; LIAONING; TAIZI BASIN;

EID: 84880052476     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: 14401703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-013-1048-7     Document Type: Article

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