A behavioural ecology approach to understand volunteer surveying for citizen science datasets

Emu

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 313-325

  Tulloch, Ayesha I T ^a   Szabo, Judit K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

generalised linear models; geographical bias; human behaviour; monitoring; New Atlas of Australian Birds.

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIOACCUMULATION; BIRD; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DATA SET; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT TYPE; HOME RANGE; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; MONITORING; SELECTION; SITE FIDELITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SURVEY; URBAN AREA;

AUSTRALIA;

AVES;

EID: 84873901642     PISSN: 01584197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MU12009     Document Type: Article

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