Barrier effects of roads on movements of small mammals

Folia Zoologica

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-12

  Rico, Adriana ^a,b   Kindlmann, Pavel ^a,b   Sedláček, František ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Apodemus flavicollis; Clethrionomys glareolus; Habitat fragmentation; Linear clearings; Road barriers; Road crossing rates; Sorex araneus

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CAPTURE METHOD; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MOVEMENT; ROAD; SMALL MAMMAL;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CESKE BUDEJOVICE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE; JIHOCESKY;

ANIMALIA; APODEMUS FLAVICOLLIS; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; SOREX ARANEUS;

EID: 34248331322     PISSN: 01397893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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