Integrating published data and citizen science to describe bird diversity across a landscape

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 672-677

  Lepczyk, Christopher A ^a,b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

BBS; Breeding bird survey; CBC; Christmas bird count; Citizen science; Monitoring; Private land; Volunteers

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; LANDOWNER; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURVEY;

MICHIGAN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVES;

EID: 28244458409     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2005.01059.x     Document Type: Article

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