The reference condition: predicting benchmarks for ecological and water-quality assessments

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 312-343

  Hawkins, Charles P ^a   Olson, John R ^a   Hill, Ryan A ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baseline; Benchmark; Ecological assessment; Ecoregion; Geomorphology; Hydrologic regimes; Landscape classification; Model; Prediction; Reference condition; Regionalization; Temperature; Typology; Water chemistry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885848631     PISSN: 08873593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1899/09-092.1     Document Type: Article

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