Different aggregation approaches in the chironomid community and the threshold of acceptable information loss

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 727, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 35-50

  Milošević, Djuradj ^a   Stojković, Milica ^a   Čerba, Dubravka ^c   Petrović, Ana ^b   Paunović, Momir ^d   Simić, Vladica ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NI   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KRAGUJEVAC   (Serbia)

^c JOSIP JURAJ STROSSMAYER UNIVERSITY OF OSIJEK   (Croatia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Bioassessment; Chironomidae larvae; Self organizing map (SOM) method; Taxonomic scaling

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FLY; LARVA; SELF ORGANIZATION; TAXONOMY;

CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 84893735539     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-013-1781-5     Document Type: Article

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