Habitat suitability modelling for mayflies (Ephemeroptera) in Flanders (Belgium)

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 17, Issue , 2013, Pages 30-35

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

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Classification trees; Logistic regressions; Random forests; Support vector machines

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLASSIFICATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT TYPE; INORGANIC SALT; MACHINERY; MAYFLY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXYGEN; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; WATER QUALITY;

BELGIUM; FLANDERS;

EPHEMEROPTERA;

EID: 84884969609     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2011.12.004     Document Type: Article

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