Hit and run: Effects of scavenging on estimates of roadkilled vertebrates

Southeastern Naturalist

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 647-656

  Antworth, Rebecca L ^a   Pike, David A ^b,c   Stevens, Ernest E ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Glatting Jackson Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; FLORIDA; SERPENTES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33644589685     PISSN: 15287092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1656/1528-7092(2005)004[0647:HAREOS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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