Unraveling the Relationships between Freshwater Invertebrate Assemblages and Interacting Environmental Factors

Freshwater Science

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1148-1158

  Pilière, Anne ^a   Schipper, Aafke M ^a   Breure, Ton M ^a,b   Posthuma, Leo ^b   Zwart, Dick De ^b   Dyer, Scott D ^c   Huijbregts, Mark A J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c PROCTER AND GAMBLE COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

benthic macroinvertebrates; Boosted Regression Trees; multimetric index; Ohio; predictor interactions; streams; variable aggregation

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HABITAT QUALITY; MACROINVERTEBRATE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STREAMWATER; WATER CHEMISTRY;

OHIO; UNITED STATES;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84940036732     PISSN: 21619549     EISSN: 21619565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/677898     Document Type: Article

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