How important are rare species in aquatic community ecology and bioassessment? Y Cao, DD Williams, NE Williams Oceanography and Limnology 43 (7), 1998 | 383 | 1998 |
Road salt contamination of groundwater in a major metropolitan area and development of a biological index to monitor its impact DD Williams, NE Williams, Y Cao Water research 34 (1), 127-138, 2000 | 325 | 2000 |
Rare species in multivariate analysis for bioassessment: some considerations Y Cao, DP Larsen, RSJ Thorne Journal of the North American Benthological Society 20 (1), 144-153, 2001 | 323 | 2001 |
Measuring the responses of macroinvertebrate communities to water pollution: a comparison of multivariate approaches, biotic and diversity indices Y Cao, AW Bark, WP Williams Hydrobiologia 341, 1-19, 1996 | 197 | 1996 |
Comparison of ecological communities: the problem of sample representativeness Y Cao, DD Williams, DP Larsen Ecological monographs 72 (1), 41-56, 2002 | 166 | 2002 |
Using Maxent to model the historic distributions of stonefly species in Illinois streams: the effects of regularization and threshold selections Y Cao, RE DeWalt, JL Robinson, T Tweddale, L Hinz, M Pessino Ecological Modelling 259, 30-39, 2013 | 165 | 2013 |
Method of predicting reference condition biota affects the performance and interpretation of ecological indices CP Hawkins, Y Cao, B Roper Freshwater Biology 55 (5), 1066-1085, 2010 | 135 | 2010 |
Modeling natural environmental gradients improves the accuracy and precision of diatom-based indicators Y Cao, CP Hawkins, J Olson, MA Kosterman Journal of the North American Benthological Society 26 (3), 566-585, 2007 | 125 | 2007 |
Sampling effort affects multivariate comparisons of stream assemblages Y Cao, DP Larsen, RM Hughes, PL Angermeier, TM Patton Journal of the North American Benthological Society 21 (4), 701-714, 2002 | 123 | 2002 |
The comparability of bioassessments: a review of conceptual and methodological issues Y Cao, CP Hawkins Journal of the North American Benthological Society 30 (3), 680-701, 2011 | 109 | 2011 |
Evaluating sampling sufficiency in fish assemblage surveys: a similarity-based approach Y Cao, DP Larsen, RM Hughes Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 58 (9), 1782-1793, 2001 | 98 | 2001 |
Analysing benthic macroinvertebrate community changes along a pollution gradient: a framework for the development of biotic indices Y Cao, AW Bark, WP Williams Water Research 31 (4), 884-892, 1997 | 95 | 1997 |
Development of the phytoplankton community in a pit-lake in relation to water quality changes M Kalin, Y Cao, M Smith, MM Olaveson Water research 35 (13), 3215-3225, 2001 | 91 | 2001 |
A comparison of clustering methods for river benthic community analysis Y Cao, AW Bark, WP Williams Hydrobiologia 347, 24-40, 1997 | 87 | 1997 |
Spatial differences in macroinvertebrate community structure in springs in southeastern Ontario in relation to their chemical and physical environments DD Williams, NE Williams, Y Cao Canadian Journal of Zoology 75 (9), 1404-1414, 1997 | 74 | 1997 |
The influence of data transformations on biological monitoring studies using macroinvertebrates RSJ Thorne, WP Williams, Y Cao Water Research 33 (2), 343-350, 1999 | 73 | 1999 |
Similarity measure bias in river benthic Aufwuchs community analysis Y Cao, WP Williams, AW Bark Water Environment Research 69 (1), 95-106, 1997 | 73 | 1997 |
Simulating biological impairment to evaluate the accuracy of ecological indicators Y Cao, CP Hawkins Journal of Applied Ecology 42 (5), 954-965, 2005 | 70 | 2005 |
Rare species are important in bioassessment(Reply to the comment by Marchant) Y Cao, DD Williams Limnology and Oceanography 44 (7), 1841-1842, 1999 | 64 | 1999 |
Data transformation and standardization in the multivariate analysis of river water quality Y Cao, DD Williams, NE Williams Ecological Applications 9 (2), 669-677, 1999 | 59 | 1999 |