Exploring non-linear relationships between landscape and aquatic ecological condition in Southern Wisconsin: A GWR and ANN approach

International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1-20

  Shaker, Richard ^a   Ehlinger, Timothy J ^b  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fish Index of Biotic Integrity; Land Cover; Land Use Planning; Landscape Pattern; Multiple Regression Modeling; Spatial Analysis; Urbanization; Watershed Function

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919484578     PISSN: 19479654     EISSN: 19479662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/ijagr.2014100101     Document Type: Article

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