Volunteer macroinvertebrate monitoring: Tensions among group goals, data quality, and outcomes

Environmental Management

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 470-479

  Nerbonne, Julia Frost ^a   Nelson, Kristen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Citizen science; Collaborative conservation; Data quality; Macroinvertebrate monitoring; Resource mobilization theory; Volunteer monitoring

Indexed keywords

CITIZEN SCIENCE; COLLABORATIVE CONSERVATION; CONSERVATION EFFORTS; DATA QUALITY; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; GROUP SIZES; MACRO INVERTEBRATES; MACROINVERTEBRATE MONITORING; POLICY CHANGES; PUBLIC AWARENESS; QUALITY DATA; QUALITY OF DATA; REGULATORY CHANGE; RESOURCE MOBILIZATION THEORY; SOCIAL CAPITALS; VOLUNTEER MONITORING;

ECOSYSTEMS; ENERGY RESOURCES;

PUBLIC POLICY;

BIOMONITORING; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DATA QUALITY; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; GROUP SIZE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PERCEPTION; REGULATORY APPROACH; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; STREAM;

ARTICLE; CITIZENSHIP; ECOSYSTEM; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; ORGANIZATION; PERCEPTION; POLICY; SCIENTIST; SOCIAL CAPITAL;

ANIMALS; AWARENESS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INVERTEBRATES; QUALITY CONTROL; VOLUNTARY PROGRAMS; VOLUNTARY WORKERS;

EID: 49749092060     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-008-9103-9     Document Type: Article

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