Beyond scarcity: Citizen science programmes as useful tools for conservation biogeography

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 354-362

  Devictor, Vincent ^a,b,c   Whittaker, Robert J ^b   Beltrame, Coralie ^a  

^a STATION BIOLOGIQUE DE LA TOUR DU VALAT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Biodiversity indicators; Citizen science; Data collection; Environmental education; People involvement; Values led conservation

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA ACQUISITION; ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; PUBLIC ATTITUDE;

EID: 77953149553     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2009.00615.x     Document Type: Article

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