The Pest Management Attitude scale: a tool for measuring consensus between experts and practitioners in invasion biology
Jacopo Cerri,
Emiliano Mori,
Elisa Serra
et al.
Abstract:Quantifying attitudes towards invasive alien species (IAS) is fundamental to understand the extent to which conservation scientists agree and can collaborate in their management. We tested the Pest Management Scale (PMS), originally invented to quantify attitudes towards invasive alien mammals in New Zealand, as a tool to quantify broader attitudes towards IAS among bioinvasion experts in Italy.In autumn 2020 we administered an online questionnaire to a sample of 525 experts, representing almost all people wor… Show more
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