Just Google it: assessing the use of Google Images to describe geographical variation in visible traits of organisms

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1060-1070

  Leighton, Gabriella R M ^a   Hugo, Pierre S ^a   Roulin, Alexandre ^b   Amar, Arjun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Accipiter melanoleucus; Corvus cornix; Corvus corone; data collection; Google Images; hybrid zone; polymorphism; species distribution; Tyto alba; Ursus americanus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84970006846     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12562     Document Type: Article

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