Towards better environmental software for spatio-temporal ecological models: Lessons from developing an intelligent system supporting phytoplankton prediction in lakes

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 25, Issue , 2015, Pages 49-56

  Huang, Jiacong ^a   Gao, Junfeng ^a   Xu, Yan ^b   Liu, Jutao ^c  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b NATIONAL MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING CENTER   (China)

^c Jiangxi Institute of Water Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Environmental software; ILake; Spatio temporal models; Taihu Phytoplankton

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEM; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SOFTWARE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA; TAIHU LAKE;

EID: 84917694771     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2014.11.005     Document Type: Article

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