The invisible prevalence of citizen science in global research: Migratory birds and climate change

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Cooper, Caren B ^a   Shirk, Jennifer ^a   Zuckerberg, Benjamin ^b  

^a Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CITIZEN SCIENCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HUMAN; INFORMATION LITERACY; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MIGRANT BIRD; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; POPULATION DISPERSAL; PREVALENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REFERENCE DATABASE; SCIENTIST; ANIMAL; BIRD; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; RESEARCH; SCIENCE;

AVES;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CLIMATE CHANGE; HUMANS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH; SCIENCE;

EID: 84906968877     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0106508     Document Type: Article

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