Using social media to strengthen public awareness of wildlife conservation

Ocean and Coastal Management

Volumn 153, Issue , 2018, Pages 76-83

  Wu, Yinglin ^a   Xie, Ling ^a   Huang, Shiang Lin ^a   Li, Ping ^a   Yuan, Zengwei ^b   Liu, Wenhua ^a  

^a SHANTOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Indo Pacific humpback dolphin; Public awareness; Social media; Text mining

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DATA MINING; DOLPHINS (STRUCTURES); SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

BIOLOGICAL FEATURES; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; HUMPBACK DOLPHINS; PUBLIC AWARENESS; SOCIAL MEDIA; TEXT MINING; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

CONSERVATION;

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA MINING; DATA QUALITY; DOLPHIN; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; INTERNET; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MEDIA ROLE; NATURE CONSERVATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; POLICY MAKING; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK;

BAISHA; BEI RIVER; CHINA; DONGPING RIVER; GUANGDONG; HAINAN; ZHUJIANG DELTA;

SOUSA CHINENSIS;

EID: 85038212535     PISSN: 09645691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2017.12.010     Document Type: Article

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