Volunteer macroinvertebrate monitoring: Assessing training needs through examining error and bias in untrained volunteers

Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 152-163

  Nerbonne, Julia Frost ^a   Vondracek, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MONITORING;

EID: 0037335430     PISSN: 08873593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1467984     Document Type: Article

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