Estimating the effects of road mortality on turtle populations

Conservation Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1647-1652

  Gibbs, James P ^a   Shriver, W Gregory ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; MORTALITY; POPULATION MODELING; ROADKILL; TURTLE;

UNITED STATES;

EMYDIDAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 0036900961     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2002.01215.x     Document Type: Article

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