Where have all the people gone? Enhancing global conservation using night lights and social media

Ecological Applications

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2153-2167

  Levin, Noam ^a,b   Kark, Salit ^b   Crandall, David ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation; Defense meteorological satellite program (DMSP); Flickr; Geo tagged data; Light pollution; Night lights; Photography hotspots; Protected areas; Visitation

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LIGHT POLLUTION; NIGHTGLOW; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITIZATION; PROTECTED AREA; SATELLITE DATA; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; UNESCO; WORLD WIDE WEB;

BOLIVIA; BRAZIL; CALIFORNIA; ENGLAND; PANTANAL; PEAK DISTRICT NATIONAL PARK; SALAR DE UYUNI; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK; YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK;

BIODIVERSITY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; POLLUTION; PROCEDURES; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPACE FLIGHT;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; HUMANS; LIGHTING; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPACECRAFT;

EID: 84959337023     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/15-0113.1     Document Type: Article

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