Volunteer surveys as a means of inferring trends in garden mammal populations

Mammal Review

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 309-317

  Toms, Michael P ^a   Newson, Stuart E ^a  

^a THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Citizen science; Monitoring; Power analysis; Urban ecology

Indexed keywords

GARDEN; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; MAMMAL; MONITORING; URBAN ECOSYSTEM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33845497719     PISSN: 03051838     EISSN: 13652907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2907.2006.00094.x     Document Type: Article

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