Model ensemble for the simulation of plankton community dynamics of Lake Kinneret (Israel) induced from in situ predictor variables by evolutionary computation

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 61, Issue , 2014, Pages 380-392

  Recknagel, Friedrich ^a   Ostrovsky, Ilia ^b   Cao, Hongqing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b ISRAEL OCEANOGRAPHIC AND LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ecological thresholds; Forecasting; Hybrid evolutionary algorithm HEA; In situ predictor variables; Lake Kinneret; Model ensemble; Model operationality; Plankton community dynamics; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FORECASTING; PLANKTON; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ECOLOGICAL THRESHOLDS; HYBRID EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM; LAKE KINNERET; MODEL ENSEMBLES; OPERATIONALITY; PLANKTON COMMUNITIES; PREDICTOR VARIABLES;

LAKES;

ALGORITHM; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; PLANKTON; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ISRAEL; NORTHERN DISTRICT; SEA OF GALILEE;

EID: 84908083973     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.03.014     Document Type: Article

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