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Table 1. Major principles and characteristics of indicators for different purposes.
Table 2. Classification of indicators for ecosystem health assessment.
Table 3. Key indicators for different kinds of ecosystems.
Table 4. Key species and measurement indicators for different kinds of ecosystems.
Table 5. Entropy‐based indicators.
Table 6. Metrics and scoring criteria of the initial index of biological integrity (IBI).
Figure 1. Schematic illustration of a back‐propagation neural network. Vertical dotted lines indicate more neurons in the layer.
Figure 2. Procedure for ecosystem health assessment with back‐propagation network.
