Creating a successful citizen science model to detect and report invasive species

BioScience

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 459-465

  Gallo, Travis ^a   Waitt, Damon ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Invaders of Texas Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Arundo donax; Citizen science; early detection; online mapping database; Texas

Indexed keywords

ARUNDO DONAX;

EID: 79958797840     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2011.61.6.8     Document Type: Article

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