Volunteer-run cameras as distributed sensors for macrosystem mammal research

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 55-66

  McShea, William J ^a   Forrester, Tavis ^a   Costello, Robert ^b   He, Zhihai ^c   Kays, Roland ^d,e  

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^e NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Camera traps; Citizen science; Cyberinfrastructure; eMammal; Macrosystem; Standard metadata

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84952714841     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-015-0262-9     Document Type: Article

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