Detection and Plant Monitoring Programs: Lessons from an Intensive Survey of Asclepias meadii with Five Observers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Alexander, Helen M ^a   Reed, Aaron W ^b   Kettle, W Dean ^a   Slade, Norman A ^a   Bodbyl Roels, Sarah A ^a   Collins, Cathy D ^c   Salisbury, Vaughn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^c Colby College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASCLEPIAS; ASCLEPIAS MEADII; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FLOWERING; MARK RECAPTURE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; RARE SPECIES; WILDLIFE;

ASCLEPIAS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; HUMANS; KANSAS; POPULATION DENSITY;

ASCLEPIAS MEADII;

EID: 84871460950     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052762     Document Type: Article

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