Predicting fish species richness in estuaries: Which modelling technique to use?

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 66, Issue , 2015, Pages 17-26

  França, Susana ^a   Cabral, Henrique N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

BRT; CART; Estuaries; GAM; GLM; Predictive modelling; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ESTUARIES; FISH; STREAM FLOW;

BOOSTED REGRESSION TREES; CART; CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREE; GENERALIZED ADDITIVE MODEL; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; PREDICTIVE MODELLING; PREDICTIVE PERFORMANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS;

ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; FISH; PREDICTION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

PORTUGAL;

EID: 84920283838     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.12.010     Document Type: Article

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