Social media data for conservation science: A methodological overview

Biological Conservation

Volumn 233, Issue , 2019, Pages 298-315

  Toivonen, Tuuli ^a   Heikinheimo, Vuokko ^a   Fink, Christoph ^a   Hausmann, Anna ^a   Hiippala, Tuomo ^a   Järv, Olle ^a   Tenkanen, Henrikki ^a   Di Minin, Enrico ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Biodiversity; Content analysis; Machine learning; Nature conservation; Social media; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOCENE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; MACHINE LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; NATURE CONSERVATION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 85063959394     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2019.01.023     Document Type: Review

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