A spatial modelling framework for assessing climate change impacts on freshwater ecosystems: Response of brown trout (Salmo trutta L.) biomass to warming water temperature

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 313, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-12

  Cianfrani, C ^a   Satizábal, Héctor F ^b   Randin, C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b Institute for Information and Communication Technologies   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Artificial Neural Network (ANN); Biogeography; Hindcasting; Regional Climate Model (RCM); Spatial modelling; Swiss Alps

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934268199     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2015.06.023     Document Type: Article

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