The Neighborhood Nestwatch program: Participant outcomes of a citizen-science ecological research project

Conservation Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 589-594

  Evans, Celia ^a   Abrams, Eleanor ^b   Reitsma, Robert ^c   Roux, Karin ^c   Salmonsen, Laura ^d   Marra, Peter P ^c  

^a PAUL SMITH S COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d Larry Box Conservation Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCAL PARTICIPATION; NATURE CONSERVATION;

EID: 20044371270     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2005.00s01.x     Document Type: Review

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