Effects of roads and traffic on wildlife populations and landscape function: Road ecology is moving toward larger scales

Ecology and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  van der Ree, Rodney ^a   Jaeger, Jochen A G ^b   van der Grift, Edgar A ^c   Clevenger, Anthony P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal movement; Animal vehicle collisions; Barrier effect; Ecological threshold; Gene flow; Habitat fragmentation; Mitigation; Population viability analysis; Road ecology; Road effect zone; Traffic mortality; Traffic noise; Traffic volume; Transportation planning

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79954541168     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-03982-160148     Document Type: Editorial

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