Biological monitoring in the Amazon: Recent progress and future needs

Biotropica

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 7-10

  Ferraz, Gonçalo ^a   Marinelli, Carlos E ^b   Lovejoy, Thomas E ^c,d  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b Centro Estadual de Unidades de Conservação do Amazonas   (Brazil)

^c H John Heinz III Center for Science   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Environmental threats; Management; Observer training; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

BIOMONITORING; MANAGEMENT; SPATIAL VARIATION;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 38149006175     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2007.00355.x     Document Type: Review

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