Winters too warm to skate? Citizen-science reported variability in availability of outdoor skating in Canada

Canadian Geographer

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 383-390

  Robertson, Colin ^a   McLeman, Robert ^a   Lawrence, Haydn ^b  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; changements climatiques; pr visions; science citoyenne; services cosyst miques

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955643622     PISSN: 00083658     EISSN: 15410064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cag.12225     Document Type: Article

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