Trade-off between road avoidance and attraction by roadside salt pools in moose: An agent-based model to assess measures for reducing moose-vehicle collisions

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 222, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1423-1435

  Grosman, Paul D ^a   Jaeger, Jochen A G ^a   Biron, Pascale M ^a   Dussault, Christian ^b   Ouellet, Jean Pierre ^c  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b MINISTÈRE DES RESSOURCES NATURELLES ET DE LA FAUNE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

Author keywords

Individual based modelling; Mitigation measures; Roads; Traffic mortality; Traffic safety; Ungulates; Wildlife vehicle collisions

Indexed keywords

INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODELLING; MITIGATION MEASURES; ROADS; TRAFFIC MORTALITY; TRAFFIC SAFETY; UNGULATES; WILDLIFE-VEHICLE COLLISIONS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ANIMALS; COMMERCE; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; LAKES; ROADSIDES; SALT REMOVAL; SHOULDERS (ROAD); VEHICLES;

HIGHWAY PLANNING;

AUTOMOBILE; AVOIDANCE REACTION; BIOTELEMETRY; COLLISION; DIET; GPS; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; MEMORY; MITIGATION; MODEL VALIDATION; MORTALITY; MOVEMENT; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POOL; ROADKILL; ROADSIDE ENVIRONMENT; SNOWMELT; SODIUM; TRADE-OFF; UNGULATE;

CANADA; LAURENTIAN MOUNTAINS; QUEBEC [CANADA];

UNGULATA;

EID: 79953024051     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.01.022     Document Type: Article

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