Is it possible to monitor mammal population changes from counts of road traffic casualties? An analysis using Bristol's red foxes Vulpes vulpes as an example

Mammal Review

Volumn 34, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 115-130

  Baker, Philip J ^a   Harris, Stephen ^a   Robertson, Charles P J ^a   Saunders, Glen ^a   White, Piran C L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Monitoring; Roadkill; Wildlife census

Indexed keywords

MAMMAL; MONITORING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION ESTIMATION; ROADKILL; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

BRISTOL [BRISTOL (UNA)]; BRISTOL [ENGLAND]; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; MAMMALIA; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 1542401919     PISSN: 03051838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0305-1838.2003.00024.x     Document Type: Article

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