Internet scientific name frequency as an indicator of cultural salience of biodiversity

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 78, Issue , 2017, Pages 549-555

  Correia, Ricardo A ^a,b   Jepson, Paul ^b   Malhado, Ana C M ^a   Ladle, Richard J ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Birds; Culturomics; Internet salience; Public perception; Scientific names; Vernacular names

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DATA HANDLING; SEARCH ENGINES; VISIBILITY; WEB CRAWLER; WEBSITES;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANISMS; CULTUROMICS; NEAR-REAL-TIME MONITORING; PUBLIC PERCEPTION; SCIENTIFIC NAMES; STATISTICAL RELATIONSHIP; SYSTEMATIC IDENTIFICATION; VERNACULAR NAMES;

BIRDS;

BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; CULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERNET; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NOMENCLATURE; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PERCEPTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

AUSTRALIA; BRAZIL; INDONESIA; SPAIN; TANZANIA; UNITED STATES;

AVES;

EID: 85016834230     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.03.052     Document Type: Article

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