Lessons from lady beetles: Accuracy of monitoring data from US and UK citizenscience programs

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 471-476

  Gardiner, Mary M ^a   Allee, Leslie L ^b   Brown, Peter M J ^c   Losey, John E ^b   Roy, Helen E ^d   Smyth, Rebecca Rice ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^c ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CITIZENSHIP; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ERROR ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

COCCINELLIDAE; COLEOPTERA;

EID: 84868358507     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/110185     Document Type: Article

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