Seasonal changes in wildlife use of motorway crossing structures and their implication for monitoring programmes

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 447-452

  Mata, Cristina ^a   Hervás, Israel ^a   Herranz, Jesús ^a   Malo, Juan E ^a   Suárez, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Habitat fragmentation; Road ecology; Vertebrates; Wildlife passages

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY;

HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MITIGATION MEASURES; MONITORING PROGRAMMES; PHOTOGRAPHIC SYSTEMS; ROAD ECOLOGY; STRUCTURAL FACTOR; VERTEBRATES; WILDLIFE PASSAGE;

ANIMALS;

HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MOTORWAY; SEASONALITY; VERTEBRATE; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 69049095968     PISSN: 13619209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2009.05.001     Document Type: Article

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