Digital repository of associations between environmental variables: A new resource to facilitate knowledge synthesis

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 53, Issue , 2015, Pages 61-69

  Ziegler, C Richard ^a   Webb, J Angus ^b   Norton, Susan B ^a   Pullin, Andrew S ^c   Melcher, Andreas H ^d  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Crowdsourcing; Environmental assessment; Informatics; Meta analysis; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

CROWDSOURCING; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; INFORMATICS;

BIBLIOMETRICS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; META ANALYSIS; RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES; STATISTICAL RELATIONSHIP; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

DATA SHARING;

ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; FACILITATION; LITERATURE REVIEW; META-ANALYSIS; REPOSITORY; RESEARCH WORK;

EID: 84922309791     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.01.003     Document Type: Article

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