Spatial patterns and factors influencing small vertebrate fauna road-kill aggregations

Biological Conservation

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 15-26

  Clevenger, Anthony P ^a,b   Chruszcz, Bryan ^c   Gunson, Kari E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c PARKS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Banff National Park; Mortality; Road ecology; Road kills; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

MORTALITY; ROADKILL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

CANADA;

AVES; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037208410     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(02)00127-1     Document Type: Article

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