Modelling habitat preference, abundance and species richness of alien macrocrustaceans in surface waters in Flanders (Belgium) using decision trees

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 17, Issue , 2013, Pages 73-81

  Boets, Pieter ^a   Lock, Koen ^a   Goethals, Peter L M ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Classification trees; Habitat suitability modelling; Integrated modelling; Regression trees

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BRACKISH WATER; CLASSIFICATION; CRUSTACEAN; DECISION MAKING; HABITAT SELECTION; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INVASIVE SPECIES; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTION EFFECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; SURFACE WATER; VULNERABILITY; WATER QUALITY;

BELGIUM; FLANDERS;

CRUSTACEA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84884920808     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2012.06.001     Document Type: Article

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