Graduate students in conservation biology: Bridging the research-implementation gap

Journal for Nature Conservation

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 62-64

  Courter, Jason R ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation education; Graduate education; Knowing doing gap; Knowledge sharing; Research and implementation; Transdisciplinary conservation research

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CONSERVATION; EDUCATION; KNOWLEDGE; RESEARCH; STUDENT;

EID: 84856602393     PISSN: 16171381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnc.2011.10.001     Document Type: Article

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