Improving and integrating data on invasive species collected by citizen scientists

Biological Invasions

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3419-3428

  Crall, Alycia W ^a,d   Newman, Gregory J ^b,d   Jarnevich, Catherine S ^c   Stohlgren, Thomas J ^c   Waller, Donald M ^a   Graham, Jim ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^d The National Institute of Invasive Species Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Citizen science; Data management; Data quality; Invasive species; Non native species; Shared databases

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIOMONITORING; DATA SET; DATABASE; GAP DYNAMICS; INVASIVE SPECIES; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STAKEHOLDER; STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 77956882882     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-010-9740-9     Document Type: Article

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