Vehicles versus conservation of invertebrates on sandy beaches: Mortalities inflicted by off-road vehicles on ghost crabs

Marine Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 354-367

  Schlacher, Thomas A ^a   Thompson, Luke ^a   Price, Sam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conservation; Human disturbance; Ocypode; Recreational impacts; Sandy beaches

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AUTOMOBILE; BEACH; CRAB; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; MORTALITY; POPULATION DECLINE; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ANIMALIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA; OCYPODE; OCYPODE CORDIMANUS; OCYPODIDAE;

EID: 34548171021     PISSN: 01739565     EISSN: 14390485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0485.2007.00156.x     Document Type: Article

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