Using citizen science data for conservation planning: methods for quality control and downscaling for use in stochastic patch occupancy modelling

The Incidence Function Model (IFM) has been put forward as a tool for assessing conservation plans. A key benefit of the IFM is low data requirements: widely available species occurrence data and information about land cover. Citizen science is a promising source of such data; however, to use these...

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Main Authors: Graham, Laura J., Haines-Young, Roy H., Field, Richard
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier 2015
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31214/