Trends in sex ratios of turtles in the United States: Implications of road mortality

Conservation Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 552-556

  Gibbs, James P ^a   Steen, David A ^a,b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b JOSEPH W JONES ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Demography; Highways; Roads

Indexed keywords

MOVEMENT; ROADKILL; SEX RATIO; TURTLE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

TESTUDINES;

EID: 16244382560     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2005.000155.x     Document Type: Article

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