Identifying road mortality threat at multiple spatial scales for semi-aquatic turtles

Biological Conservation

Volumn 141, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2550-2563

  Beaudry, Frederic ^a   deMaynadier, Phillip G ^b   Hunter Jr , Malcolm L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b MAINE DEPARTMENT OF INLAND FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clemmys guttata; Emydoidea blandingii; Gravity model; Mitigation; Spatially explicit population viability analysis; Tortuosity

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; FORECASTING METHOD; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MORTALITY RISK; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; ROADKILL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TURTLE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CLEMMYS GUTTATA; EMYDOIDEA BLANDINGII; TESTUDINES;

EID: 52049107600     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2008.07.016     Document Type: Article

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