Prospects and challenges for social media data in conservation science

Frontiers in Environmental Science

Volumn 3, Issue SEP, 2015, Pages

  Minin, Enrico Di ^a,b   Tenkanen, Henrikki ^a   Toivonen, Tuuli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Big data; Biodiversity conservation; Facebook; Instagram; Management; National parks; social media; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 85042281174     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2015.00063     Document Type: Article

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