Reproductive rate and body size predict road impacts on mammal abundance

Ecological Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 589-600

  Rytwinski, Trina ^a   Fahrig, Lenore ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Body size; Landscape connectivity; Landscape fragmentation; Landscape structure; Mammal; Mobility; Population abundance; Reproductive rate; Road density; Road mitigation; Road mortality; Road network

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GENERATION TIME; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HOME RANGE; LANDSCAPE; MAMMAL; MOBILITY; MORTALITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DECLINE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SLOPE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CANADA; ECOSYSTEM; HISTOLOGY; MAMMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; URBANIZATION;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; MAMMALS; ONTARIO; REPRODUCTION; URBANIZATION;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

MAMMALIA;

EID: 79955531412     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-0968.1     Document Type: Article

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