Road upgrade, road mortality and remedial measures: Impacts on a population of eastern quolls and Tasmanian devils

Wildlife Research

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 289-296

  Jones, Menna E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; MORTALITY; POPULATION SIZE; ROAD CONSTRUCTION;

AUSTRALIA;

DASYURUS VIVERRINUS; SARCOPHILUS LANIARIUS;

EID: 0034041766     PISSN: 10353712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WR98069     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Andrews, A. (1990). Fragmentation of habitat by roads and utility corridors: a review. Australian Zoologist 26, 130-141.
2. Anon. (1997). Living with eastern grey kangaroos in the A.C.T. - Public Land. Report, ACT Kangaroo Advisory Committee. Department of Environment, Land and Planning, ACT.
3. Aspinall, I. (1995). Evaluation of wildlife warning reflectors. VIC ROADS Report No. GR 94-12.
4. Bennett, A. F. (1991). Roads, roadsides and wildlife conservation: a review. In 'Nature Conservation. 2: The Role of Corridors'. (Eds D. A. Saunders and R. J. Hobbs.). pp. 99-117. (Surrey Beatty and Sons: Sydney.)
5. Broadbent, J. A., Pressey, R., Ehmann, H., Ivantsoff, W., Jones, A., and Williams, R. (1981). Faunal studies for the proposed Wahroonga-Berowra section of the Sydney-Newcastle freeway (No. 3). NSW Department of Main Roads Environmental and Urban Studies Report No. 68.
6. Brown, P. R. (1989). Management plan for the conservation of the eastern barred bandicoot Perameles gunnii in Victoria. Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research Technical Report Series No. 63.
7. Coulson, G. M. (1982). Road-kills of macropods on a section of highway in central Victoria. Australian Wildlife Research 9, 21-26.
8. Coulson, G. (1985). Road-kills: wheels v wildlife. Wildlife Australia Summer, 26-28.
9. Coulson, G. (1997). Male bias in road-kills of macropods. Wildlife Research 24, 21-25.
10. Gallagher, J., and Nelson, J. (1979). Cause of ill health and natural death in badgers in Gloucestershire. Veterinary Record 105, 546-551.
11. Godsell, J. (1982). The population ecology of the eastern quoll Dasyurus viverrinus (Dasyuridae, Marsupialia), in southern Tasmania. In 'Carnivorous Marsupials'. (Ed. M. Archer.) pp. 199-207. (Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales: Sydney.)
12. Green, R. H., and Scarborough, T. J. (1990). The spotted-tailed quoll Dasyurus maculatus (Dasyuridae, Marsupialia) in Tasmania. The Tasmanian Naturalist 100, 1-15.
13. Harris, L. D., and Gallagher, P. B. (1989). New initiatives for wildlife conservation. The need for movement corridors. In 'In Defense of Wildlife: Preserving Communities and Corridors'. (Ed. G. Mackintosh.) pp. 11-34. (Defenders of Wildlife: Washington.)
14. Hunt, A., Dickens, H. J., and Whelan, R. J. (1987). Movement of small mammals through tunnels under railway lines. Australian Zoologist 24, 89-93.
15. Jones, M. E. (1995). Guild structure of the large marsupial carnivores in Tasmania. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Tasmania, Hobart.
16. Jones, M. E. (1997). Character displacement in Australian dasyurid carnivores: size relationships and prey size patterns. Ecology 78, 2569-2587.
17. Jones, M. E. (1998). Function of vigilance in sympatric marsupial carnivores, the eastern quoll and the Tasmanian devil. Animal Behaviour 56, 1279-1284.
18. Jones, M. E., and Barmuta, L. A. (1998). Diet overlap and abundance of sympatric dasyurid carnivores: a hypothesis of competition? Journal of Animal Ecology 67, 410-421.
19. Jones, M. E., and Barmuta, L. A. (2000). Niche differentiation among sympatric Australian dasyurid carnivores. Journal of Mammalogy 81, in press.
20. Jones, M. E., Grigg, G., and Beard, L. (1997). Body temperatures of Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) and eastern quolls (Dasyurus viverrinus) through an alpine winter. Physiological Zoology 70, 53-60.
21. McLean, A. J., Anderson, R. W. G., Farmer, M. J. B., Lee, B. H., and Brooks, C. G. (1994). Vehicle traffic speeds and the incidence of fatal pedestrian collisions. Vol. 1. NHMRC Road Accident Research Unit, The University of Adelaide & Federal Office of Road Safety Report No. CR 146.
22. Pojar, T. M., Prosence, R. A., Reed, D. F., and Woodard, T. N. (1975). Effectiveness of a lighted, animated, deer crossing sign. Journal of Wildlife Management 39, 87-91.
23. Reeve, A. F., and Anderson, S. H. (1993). Ineffectiveness of Swareflex reflectors at reducing deer-vehicle collisions. Wildlife Society Bulletin 21, 127-132.
24. Reilly, R. E., and Green, H. E. (1974). Deer mortality on a Michigan interstate highway. Journal of Wildlife Management 38, 16-19.
25. Singer, F. J., and Doherty, J. L. (1985). Managing mountain goats at a highway crossing. Wildlife Society Bulletin 13, 469-477.
26. Southwell, C., and Fletcher, M. (1993). Repeatability and standardisation of roadside spotlight counts of mammals in Tasmania. Australian Mammalogy 16, 73-75.
27. Statham, M., and Statham, H. L. (1997). Movements and habits of brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula Kerr) in an urban area. Wildlife Research 24, 715-726.
28. van Gelder, J. J. (1973). A quantitative approach to the mortality resulting from traffic in a population of Bufo bufo L. Oecologia (Berlin) 13, 93-95.
29. Waring, G. H., Griffis, J. L., and Vaughn, M. E. (1991). White-tailed deer roadside behavior, wildlife warning reflectors, and highway mortality. Applied Animal Behavior Science 29, 215-223.