An assessment of the use of volunteers for terrestrial invertebrate biodiversity surveys

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3295-3307

  Lovell, Saskie ^a   Hamer, Michelle ^a   Slotow, Rob ^a   Herbert, Dai ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b NATAL MUSEUM   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Active searching; Conservation; Environmental education; Sampling effectiveness; Savanna; Survey design; Unskilled workers

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA QUALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH; INVERTEBRATE; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PERCEPTION; SAMPLING; SAVANNA; SURVEY DESIGN;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 70449597928     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-009-9642-2     Document Type: Article

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