Usefulness of volunteer data to measure the large scale decline of "common" toad populations

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2328-2334

  Bonardi, Anna ^a   Manenti, Raoul ^b   Corbetta, Andrea ^c   Ferri, Vincenzo ^d   Fiacchini, David ^e   Giovine, Giovanni ^c   Macchi, Silvia ^e   Romanazzi, Enrico ^e   Soccini, Christiana ^d   Bottoni, Luciana ^a   Padoa Schioppa, Emilio ^a   Ficetola, Gentile Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c Stazione Sperimentale regionale per lo studio e la conservazione degli anfibi Lago di Endine   (Italy)

^d Centro Studi Arcadia   (Italy)

^e NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amphibian decline; Biodiversity monitoring; Bufo bufo; Italy; Meta analysis; Sampling effort

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION STATUS; DATA SET; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HETEROGENEITY; META-ANALYSIS; MONITORING; MONITORING SYSTEM; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION SIZE; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOAD; TREND ANALYSIS;

ITALY;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BUFO BUFO;

EID: 79960907701     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.06.011     Document Type: Article

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