Recruitment and Retention of Volunteers in a Citizen Science Network to Detect Invasive Species on Private Lands.
Volunteer citizen monitoring is an increasingly important source of scientific data. We developed a volunteer program for early detection of new invasive species by private landowners on their own land. Early detection of an invasive species, however, subjects the landowner to the potentially costly...
| Publicado en: | Environmental Management Vol. 58; no. 4; pp. 606 - 619 |
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
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Springer Nature
Oct2016
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