Impacts of river alteration for flood control on freshwater turtle populations

Landscape and Ecological Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 9-16

  Usuda, Hayato ^a   Morita, Takae ^b   Hasegawa, Masami ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Citizens School of Shiroi Environmental Conservation and Education   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flood control; Freshwater turtles; Hibernation sites; Population decline; River alteration

Indexed keywords

MAUREMYS REEVESII; TESTUDINES;

EID: 84655164953     PISSN: 18601871     EISSN: 1860188X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11355-010-0136-x     Document Type: Article

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