Citizen science and invasive alien species: Predicting the detection of the oak processionary moth Thaumetopoea processionea by moth recorders

Biological Conservation

Volumn 208, Issue , 2017, Pages 146-154

  Pocock, Michael J O ^a   Roy, Helen E ^a   Fox, Richard ^b   Ellis, Willem N ^c   Botham, Marc ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION   (United Kingdom)

^c NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alien invasive species; Citizen scientist; List length analysis; Monitoring; Naturalist; Tree health; Volunteer

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMONITORING; COLONIZATION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVASIVE SPECIES; MOTH; PEST SPECIES; PREDICTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RARE SPECIES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VOLUNTARY APPROACH;

NETHERLANDS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALIA; LEPIDOPTERA; THAUMETOPOEA PROCESSIONEA;

EID: 84975705417     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2016.04.010     Document Type: Article

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