Quantifying off-highway vehicle impacts on density and survival of a threatened dune-endemic plant

Biological Conservation

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 119-134

  Groom, Jeremiah D ^a   McKinney, Lloyd B ^a   Ball, Lianne C ^a   Winchell, Clark S ^a  

^a U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Astragalus magdalenae var. peirsonii; Distance sampling; Mark recapture; Off road vehicle; OHV; Peirson's milk vetch

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DUNE FIELD; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENDEMIC SPECIES; HERB; POPULATION DENSITY; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; SURVIVAL;

ALGODONES DUNES; CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ASTRAGALUS MAGDALENAE; ASTRAGALUS MAGDALENAE PEIRSONII; VICIA;

EID: 33845435154     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2006.10.005     Document Type: Article

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