An assessment of wildlife road casualties - The potential discrepancy between numbers counted and numbers killed

Web Ecology

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages 33-42

  Slater, F M ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; MORTALITY; ROADKILL;

EID: 0036979789     PISSN: 13991183     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/we-3-33-2002     Document Type: Article

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