Evaluation of local ecological knowledge as a method for collecting extensive data on animal abundance

Conservation Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 617-625

  AnadÓn, José Daniel ^a,b   GimÉnez, Andrés ^a   Ballestar, Rubén ^a   PÉrez, Irene ^a  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal abundance; Cost efficiency; Distance sampling; Local ecological knowledge; Terrestrial tortoises; Testudo graeca

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTIMATION METHOD; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TURTLE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOLOGY; EVALUATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPAIN; TURTLE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; DATA COLLECTION; ECOLOGY; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPAIN; TURTLES;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

ANIMALIA; TESTUDINIDAE; TESTUDO GRAECA;

EID: 65949084032     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.01145.x     Document Type: Article

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