Relationships between diatom assemblages and physico-chemical variables in the river ter (NE Spain)

✍ Scribed by Sergi Sabater; Francesc Sabater; Joan Armengol

• Book ID: 102869741
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 593 KB
• Volume: 73
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1434-2944
• DOI: 10.1002/iroh.19880730204

✦ Synopsis

In the search for the ciiiises of diatom assemblage tlistrihrition, ti com1)ination oft\vo multivariate analyses has been used. Principal component analysis and ciinonical correlation analysis have allowed 11s to find siiitohle relationships between hiologicul ilncl pliysico-clieniical parameters. -4s a rcsiilt, water salinity arid pollntion Iiiivc ap~caretl as the two niiiin factors which cleterinine diatom iissemblagc distribution. Llaseivoirs avt its tliwriiptors of the miter cliaracteristics, and h;LvC tin iniproving effect in the two above fitctors, w1iii:h Icaclx to il differout diatorn community.

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