Use of non-wildlife passages across a high speed railway by terrestrial vertebrates

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1527-1540

  Rodriguez, Alejandro ^a   Crema, Giulia ^a   Delibes, Miguel ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

barrier effect; crossing facilities; fragmentation; vertebrate conservation

Indexed keywords

RAILWAY; TERRESTRIAL VERTEBRATE; WILDLIFE PASSAGE;

LAGOMORPHA; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; UNGULATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030302622     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2404791     Document Type: Article

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