Motorways and bird traffic casualties: Carcasses surveys and scavenging bias

Biological Conservation

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 40-51

  Guinard, Éric ^a,b   Julliard, Romain ^c   Barbraud, Christophe ^d  

^a Centre d'études Techniques de l'équipement du Sud Ouest CETE SO   (France)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Bird mortality; Carcass persistence; Motorways; Scavengers activity; Survey biases

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MORTALITY; MOTORWAY; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PASSERINE; RAPTOR; ROADKILL; SCAVENGING (FEEDING); SEASONAL VARIATION;

FRANCE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; STRIGIFORMES; TYTO ALBA; TYTONIDAE;

EID: 84858113448     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.01.019     Document Type: Article

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