Patterns of contribution to citizen science biodiversity projects increase understanding of volunteers' recording behaviour

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Boakes, Elizabeth H ^a   Gliozzo, Gianfranco ^a   Seymour, Valentine ^b   Harvey, Martin ^c   Smith, Chloë ^d   Roy, David B ^e   Haklay, Muki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Greenspace Information for Greater London CIC   (United Kingdom)

^e NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; UNITED KINGDOM; VOLUNTEER;

BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; UNITED KINGDOM; VOLUNTEERS;

EID: 84987602289     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep33051     Document Type: Article

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