Monitoring wildlife-vehicle collisions in the information age: How smartphones can improve data collection

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Olson, Daniel D ^a   Bissonette, John A ^a   Cramer, Patricia C ^a   Green, Ashley D ^b   Davis, Scott T ^c   Jackson, Patrick J ^a   Coster, Daniel C ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UTAH DIVISION OF WILDLIFE RESOURCES   (United States)

^c Automated Geographic Reference Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CARCASS; COST CONTROL; DATA BASE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOBILE PHONE; NONHUMAN; SMARTPHONE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WILDLIFE VEHICLE COLLISION; ANIMAL; COST; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; UNITED STATES; WILD ANIMAL;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CELL PHONES; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES;

EID: 84902438937     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0098613     Document Type: Article

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