The incidental steward : reflections on citizen science /

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A search for a radio-tagged Indiana bat roosting in the woods behind her house in New York's Hudson Valley led Akiko Busch to assorted other encounters with the natural world--local ecological monitoring projects, community-organized cleanup efforts, and data-driven citizen science research. Wh...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Busch, Akiko
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Environmental monitoring > Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)
Wildlife conservation > Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)
Environnement > Surveillance > Hudson, Vallée de l' (N.Y. et N.J.)
Faune > Protection > Hudson, Vallée de l' (N.Y. et N.J.)
SCIENCE.
Research & Methodology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Environmental Policy.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civics & Citizenship.
Environmental monitoring
Wildlife conservation
Earth & Environmental Sciences.
Ecology.
United States > Hudson River Valley
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Bats in the locust tree
  • Weeds on the river
  • Pools in the spring
  • Ribbons underwater
  • Coyotes across the clear-cut
  • Herring into the brook
  • Loosestrife in the marsh
  • Eels in the stream
  • Vines through the trees
  • Insects in the ash trees
  • Eagles on the shore
  • Epilogue.

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