Eliciting Expert Knowledge in Conservation Science
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Eliciting expert knowledge in conservation science.
Expert knowledge is used widely in the science and practice of conservation because of the complexity of problems, relative lack of data, and the imminent nature of many conservation decisions. Expert knowledge is substantive information on a particular topic that is not widely known by others. An expert is someone who holds this knowledge and who is often deferred to in its interpretation. We ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Conservation Biology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0888-8892
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01806.x