Estimating the cost of different strategies for measuring farmland biodiversity: Evidence from a Europe-wide field evaluation

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 45, Issue , 2014, Pages 434-443

  Targetti, S ^a   Herzog, F ^b   Geijzendorffer, I R ^c,d   Wolfrum, S ^e   Arndorfer, M ^f   Balazs K ^g   Choisis, J P ^h   Dennis, P ⁱ   Eiter, S ^j   Fjellstad, W ^j   Friedel, J K ^f   Jeanneret, P ^b   Jongman, R H G ^d   Kainz, M ^e   Luescher, G ^b   Moreno, G ^k   Zanetti, T ^l   Sarthou, J P ^m,n   Stoyanova, S ^o   Wiley, D ^b   Paoletti, M G ^l   Viaggi, D ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^c AVIGNON UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^g SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^h UMR 1201 Dynafor   (France)

ⁱ ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^j NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

^k UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^l UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^m UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

ⁿ UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^o Institute for Plant Genetic Resources KMalkov Sadovo   (Bulgaria)

more..

Author keywords

Agriculture; Citizen science; Indicators; Monitoring; Volunteers

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; COST ESTIMATING; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FARMS; INDICATORS (INSTRUMENTS); MONITORING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

AGRICULTURAL AREAS; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES; BIODIVERSITY MONITORING; CITIZEN SCIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; MONITORING APPROACH; MONITORING PROGRAMMES; VOLUNTEERS;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTIMATION METHOD; EUROPEAN UNION;

EUROPE;

EID: 84901303168     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.04.050     Document Type: Article

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