Assessing the effects of a highway on a threatened species using Before-During-After and Before-During-After-Control-Impact designs

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2223-2232

  Torres, Aurora ^a   Palacín, Carlos ^a   Seoane, Javier ^b   Alonso, Juan C ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Avoidance behaviour; BACI designs; Impact assessment; Road ecology; Road effects; Steppe birds

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; BREEDING SEASON; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA SET; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; DISTURBANCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GAMEBIRD; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; ROADSIDE ENVIRONMENT; SEASONALITY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STEPPE; TIME SERIES; TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE;

AVES; OTIDIDAE; OTIS TARDA;

EID: 79960911672     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.05.014     Document Type: Article

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