New eyes on the world: Advanced sensors for ecology

BioScience

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 385-397

  Porter, John H ^a   Nagy, Eric ^a   Kratz, Timothy K ^b   Hanson, Paul ^c   Collins, Scott L ^d   Arzberger, Peter ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental monitoring; Organization of biological field stations; Sensor networks; Sensors

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649824067     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2009.59.5.6     Document Type: Article

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