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Citizen science can improve conservation science, natural resource management, and environmental protection
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“Data from amateurs/nonprofessionals are already in use in conservation biology/ecology with great success while also being low in cost (MacPhail & Colla, 2020;McKinley et al., 2017;Sumner et al., 2019).”
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- McKinley, D. C., Miller-Rushing, A. J., Ballard, H. L., Bonney, R., Brown, H., Cook-Patton, S. C., Evans, D. M., French, R. A., Parrish, J. K., Phillips, T. B., Ryan, S. F., Shanley, L. A., Shirk, J. L., Stepenuck, K. F., Weltzin, J. F., Wiggins, A., Boyle, O. D., Briggs, R. D., Chapin, S. F., Hewitt, D. A., Preuss, P. W., & Soukup, M. A.
- Venue
- Biological Conservation
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2017-04
- Volume
- 208
- Pages
- 15-28
- ISSN
- 0006-3207 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2468006349
- Cited by
- 1,142
- References
- 8
- FWCI
- 160.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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