The effect of road-based fatalities on the viability of a peri-urban swamp wallaby population

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1615-1624

  Ramp, Daniel ^a   Ben Ami, Dror ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Disturbance regimes; Metapopulation model; Population viability; Road ecology; Road based fatalities; Royal National Park; Sensitivity analysis; Swamp wallaby; Wallabia bicolor

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MARSUPIAL; PERIURBAN AREA; POPULATION MODELING; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROADKILL; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SWAMP; VIABILITY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; ROYAL NATIONAL PARK;

ANIMALIA; WALLABIA; WALLABIA BICOLOR;

EID: 33846806050     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0022-541X(2006)70[1615:TEORFO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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