Using this more detailed microbial community characterization, it may be possible to move away from generic, single indicators to a community-indicator approach for assessing fecal contamination or environments conducive to pathogen growth.
We considered a specific regression model (whether simple or multiple) as the most adequate one if its AIC was at least 7 points lower than that of the other models run for a given community indicator and landscape gradient.
Archival data are an important source of community indicator data.
With the explicit nonnegative constraint, our solutions are very close to the ideal community indicator matrix and can directly assign nodes into communities.
This article provides an overview of community indicators of alcohol use and related harms, outlining common sources of community indicator data and highlighting the various challenges of collecting data on alcohol at the community level.
Residents were also asked for their views in relation to a range of community indicators: "feeling part of the community", "having trust in local organisations", and "thinking one can influence decisions that affect the local area".
Table 1 provides a summary of common community indicators of alcohol use and related harms measured in community-based research.
We estimated the predicted change in the values of community indicators if a landscape changed from one extreme of a landscape gradient to the other (e.g. a forest becomes a farmland area, is burnt by a wildfire or is urbanized).
Community indicators are measures that communicate information about a given dimension of a community's well-being (Besleme and Mullin 1997).
Multimetric indices composed of biological community indicators are commonly used to assess ecological condition and indices have recently been applied in large regions.
