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Can School Children Support Ecological Research? Lessons from the Oak Bodyguard Citizen Science Project

Citizen Science: Theory and Practice
Volume 5 (2020): Issue 1
By: Bastien Castagneyrol,  Elena Valdés-Correcher,  Audrey Bourdin,  Luc Barbaro,  Olivier Bouriaud,  Manuela Branco,  Giada Centenaro,  György Csóka,  Mihai-Leonard Duduman,  Anne-Maïmiti Dulaurent,  Csaba B. Eötvös,  Maria Faticov,  Marco Ferrante,  Ágnes Fürjes-Mikó,  Andrea Galmán,  Martin M. Gossner,  Deborah Harvey,  Andy G. Howe,  Michèle Kaennel-Dobbertin,  Julia Koricheva,  Gábor L. Löveï,  Daniela Lupaștean,  Slobodan Milanović,  Anna Mrazova,  Lars Opgennoorth,  Juha-Matti Pitkänen,  Marija Popović,  Tomas V. Roslin,  Michael Scherer-Lorenzen,  Katerina Sam,  Markéta Tahadlová,  Rebecca Thomas and  Ayco J. M. Tack  
Open Access
|Mar 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.267 | Journal eISSN: 2057-4991
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Language: English
Submitted on: Jul 26, 2019
Accepted on: Dec 20, 2019
Published on: Mar 18, 2020
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
artificial prey,
citizen science,
data quality,
insect herbivory,
measurement bias,
predation,
schoolchildren

© 2020 Bastien Castagneyrol, Elena Valdés-Correcher, Audrey Bourdin, Luc Barbaro, Olivier Bouriaud, Manuela Branco, Giada Centenaro, György Csóka, Mihai-Leonard Duduman, Anne-Maïmiti Dulaurent, Csaba B. Eötvös, Maria Faticov, Marco Ferrante, Ágnes Fürjes-Mikó, Andrea Galmán, Martin M. Gossner, Deborah Harvey, Andy G. Howe, Michèle Kaennel-Dobbertin, Julia Koricheva, Gábor L. Löveï, Daniela Lupaștean, Slobodan Milanović, Anna Mrazova, Lars Opgennoorth, Juha-Matti Pitkänen, Marija Popović, Tomas V. Roslin, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Katerina Sam, Markéta Tahadlová, Rebecca Thomas, Ayco J. M. Tack, published by Ubiquity Press
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