Traffic volume and highway permeability for a mammalian community in the Canadian Rocky Mountains

Canadian Geographer

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 321-331

  Alexander, Shelley M ^a   Waters, Nigel M ^a   Paquet, Paul C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMAL; MOBILITY; ROAD TRANSPORT; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

MAMMALIA; UNGULATA;

EID: 31144476504     PISSN: 00083658     EISSN: 15410064     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0008-3658.2005.00099.x     Document Type: Article

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