Smartphones in ecology and evolution: A guide for the app-rehensive

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 5268-5278

  Teacher, Amber G F ^a   Griffiths, David J ^b   Hodgson, David J ^a   Inger, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b FoAM vzw   (Belgium)

Author keywords

App; Datalogger; Georeference; Global positioning systems; Mobile; Smartphone; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890879104     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.888     Document Type: Article

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