Gaining perspective on what we've lost: The reliability of encoded anecdotes in historical ecology

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Al Abdulrazzak, Dalal ^a   Naidoo, Robin ^b   Palomares, Maria Lourdes D ^a   Pauly, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Conservation Science Program WWF US ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MARINE BIOLOGY; NARRATIVE; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DATA COLLECTION; ECOLOGY; FISHERIES; HUMANS;

EID: 84865294314     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043386     Document Type: Article

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