Assessing the impacts of roads in peri-urban reserves: Road-based fatalities and road usage by wildlife in the Royal National Park, New South Wales, Australia

Biological Conservation

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 348-359

  Ramp, Daniel ^a   Wilson, Vanessa K ^a   Croft, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Kernel density estimates; Predictive models; Reserve systems; Road based fatalities; Wildlife populations

Indexed keywords

COLLISION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; PREDICTION; ROAD; ROADKILL;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33644538599     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2005.11.002     Document Type: Article

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