Forest monitoring and social media - Complementary data sources for ecosystem surveillance?

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 316, Issue , 2014, Pages 9-20

  Daume, Stefan ^a,b   Albert, Matthias ^c   von Gadow, Klaus ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c North West German Forest Research Institute   (Germany)

^d STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Anthropocene; Forest ecosystem services; Forest monitoring; Forest observational studies; Social media mining; Societal context

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893978591     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.09.004     Document Type: Article

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