Crowdsourcing meets ecology: Hemispherewide spatiotemporal species distribution models

AI Magazine

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 19-30

  Fink, Daniel ^a   Damoulas, Theodoros ^b,c   Bruns, Nicholas E ^a   La Sorte, Frank A ^a   Hochachka, Wesley M ^a,d   Gomes, Carla P ^d   Kelling, Steve ^a  

^a Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; CROWDSOURCING; ECOLOGY;

CONSERVATION PLANNING; CONSERVATION STRATEGIES; DATA COLLECTION; ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; MODEL DIAGNOSTICS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE; SPATIOTEMPORAL PROCESS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELS;

POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84904898177     PISSN: 07384602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1609/aimag.v35i2.2533     Document Type: Article

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