Focused Campaign Increases Activity among Participants in Nature's Notebook, a Citizen Science Project

Natural Sciences Education

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 64-72

  Crimmins, Theresa M ^a,b   Weltzin, Jake F ^b   Rosemartin, Alyssa H ^a,b   Surina, Echo M ^b   Marsh, Lee ^a,b   Denny, Ellen G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b National Phenology Network   (United States)

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EID: 84974842300     PISSN: 21688273     EISSN: 21688281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4195/nse2013.06.0019     Document Type: Article

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