Forest roads as partial barriers to terrestrial salamander movement

Conservation Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2004-2008

  Marsh, David M ^a   Milam, Graham S ^a   Gorham, Nicholas P ^a   Beckman, Noelle G ^a  

^a WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Dispersal; Habitat fragmentation; Landscape resistance; Plethodon cinereus

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HOMING BEHAVIOR; ROAD;

AMPHIBIA; AMPHIUMA MEANS; ANIMALIA; CAUDATA; PLETHODON CINEREUS;

EID: 33244484784     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2005.00238.x     Document Type: Article

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