Rethinking Road Ecology

Living in a Dynamic Tropical Forest Landscape

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 445-459

  Goosem, Miriam ^a,b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Ecology and Management ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Canopy closure over unsealed and sealed tourist roads; Disturbance impacts emanating from linear clearings; Factors causing edge effects; Initial Wet Tropics research; Kuranda Range highway upgrade design; Rainforest CRC (Cooperative Research Centre); Research for best possible environmental outcomes; Rethinking Road Ecology

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ROADS AND STREETS;

CANOPY CLOSURES; COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRES; DISTURBANCE IMPACTS EMANATING FROM LINEAR CLEARINGS; EDGE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL OUTCOME; ROAD ECOLOGY; WET TROPICS;

HIGHWAY PLANNING;

EID: 37749044834     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444300321.ch36     Document Type: Chapter

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