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BirdLasser: The influence of a mobile app on a citizen science project

Alan Tristram Kenneth Lee1 Centre for Functional Biodiversity, School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Scottsville, South Africa;2 DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence at the FitzPatrick Institute, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South AfricaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Henk Nel3 BirdLasser, Lejint, Johannesburg, South Africa
Pages 155-160 | Received 02 Jul 2019, Accepted 22 Dec 2019, Published online: 12 May 2020

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