Ecosystem - What ? Public Understanding and Trust in Conservation Science and Ecosystem Services

Frontiers in Communication

Volumn 1, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Thompson, Jessica Leigh ^a   Kaiser, Alina ^a   Sparks, Eric L ^b,c   Shelton, Michael ^d,e   Brunden, Eric ^d,e   Cherry, Julia A ^f   Cebrian, Just ^g,h  

^a NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Mississippi Alabama Sea Grant Consortium   (United States)

^d Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve   (United States)

^e Lands Division   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^g DAUPHIN ISLAND SEA LAB   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

conservation; ecosystem science; ecosystem services; public understanding of science; trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 85117904357     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2297900X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2016.00003     Document Type: Article

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