title: Wisdom of the crowd and natural resource management.
abstract: The 'wisdom of the crowd' approach suggests that independent estimates of natural resource sizes provided by resource users can be aggregated to approximate true stock sizes. If this hypothesis gains empirical support, an important contributor to sustainable natural resource management in data-poor situations has appeared on the horizon.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology and Ecology of Fishes, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany. arlinghaus@igb-berlin.de
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Arlinghaus
authors.forename: Jens
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Krause
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D018533:Biomass; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D005398:Fisheries; D005399:Fishes; D011156:Population Density