Tools for bioindicator assessment in rivers: The importance of spatial scale, land use patterns and biotic integration

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 34, Issue , 2013, Pages 460-477

  Cortes, Rui Manuel Vitor ^a   Hughes, Samantha Jane ^a   Pereira, Vitor Rodrigues ^a   Varandas, Simone Da Graça Pinto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Bioindicator; Environmental predictors; Land use metrics; Macroinvertebrate metrics; Traits

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; BIOINDICATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTORS; MACROINVERTEBRATES; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS; RANDOM FOREST CLASSIFICATION; TRAITS;

DECISION TREES; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; EUTROPHICATION; FRACTALS; LAND USE; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RIVER POLLUTION; WATER CONSERVATION;

BIOMARKERS;

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; BENTHOS; BIOINDICATOR; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EUTROPHICATION; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; INDEX OF BIOTIC INTEGRITY; LAND USE CHANGE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MONITORING SYSTEM; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RIVER SYSTEM; TAXONOMY; URBANIZATION;

EUROPE;

EID: 84880312132     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2013.06.004     Document Type: Article

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