An assessment of road impacts on wildlife populations in U.S. national parks

Environmental Management

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 480-496

  Ament, Rob ^a   Clevenger, Anthony P ^a   Yu, Olivia ^a,b   Hardy, Amanda ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Data collection; Habitat fragmentation; Mitigation; Mortality; National park; Questionnaire; Road ecology; Road network; Survey; Transportation; Wildlife management

Indexed keywords

DATA COLLECTION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MITIGATION; MORTALITY; NATIONAL PARK; NATIONAL PARK SERVICE; NATIONAL PARKS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESOURCE MANAGERS; ROAD ECOLOGY; ROAD NETWORK; SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES; SURVEY; SYSTEMATIC APPROACHES; TRAFFIC VOLUMES; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS; UNITED STATES; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT; WILDLIFE POPULATIONS;

FORESTRY; HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION; MANAGERS; POPULATION STATISTICS; ROADS AND STREETS; SURVEYS; TRANSPORTATION;

PARKS;

DATA ACQUISITION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MITIGATION; MORTALITY; NATIONAL PARK; NATURE CONSERVATION; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRANSPORTATION; VULNERABILITY;

ARTICLE; CAR; CONFLICT; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MANAGER; MORTALITY; NATIONAL PARK; QUESTIONNAIRE; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; UNITED STATES; WILDLIFE;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MOTOR VEHICLES; POPULATION DENSITY; RECREATION; TRANSPORTATION;

BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; DATA PROCESSING; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; ROADS; STATISTICS; SURVEYING; TRANSPORT;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 49749128371     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-008-9112-8     Document Type: Article

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