A software tool for elicitation of expert knowledge about species richness or similar counts

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 30, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-14

  Fisher, Rebecca ^a   O'Leary, Rebecca A ^a   Low Choy, Samantha ^b,c   Mengersen, Kerrie ^c   Caley, M Julian ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Australia Cooperative Research Centre for National Plant Biosecurity   (Australia)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Elicitation software; Estimating counts; Expert elicitation; Expert opinion; Species richness

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CORAL REEF; CROSS-PLATFORM; ESTIMATING COUNTS; EXPERT ELICITATION; EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; EXPERT OPINION; EXPERT'S OPINION; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; RAPID FEEDBACK; SOFTWARE TOOL; SOFTWARE USE; SPECIES RICHNESS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TYPE METHODS; USER FRIENDLY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AID POLICY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CORAL REEF; EXPERT SYSTEM; SOFTWARE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84855205526     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2011.11.011     Document Type: Article

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