Seeing the elephant: Importance of spatial and temporal coverage in a large-scale volunteer-based program to monitor horseshoe crabs

Fisheries

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 485-491

  Smith, David R ^a   Michels, Stewart F ^b  

^a LEETOWN SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIMULUS; LIMULUS POLYPHEMUS; MEROSTOMATA;

EID: 33751019971     PISSN: 03632415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8446(2006)31[485:STE]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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