When flyways meet highways-The relative permeability of different motorway crossing sites to functionally diverse bat species

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 293-302

  Abbott, Isobel M ^a   Butler, Fidelma ^a   Harrison, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Bat mitigation; Fragmentation; Hedgerows; Road ecology; Underpass; Wildlife movement

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; RIVERS; ROADS AND STREETS; UNDERPASSES; WOODEN FENCES;

BAT MITIGATION; FRAGMENTATION; HEDGEROWS; ROAD ECOLOGY; WILDLIFE MOVEMENT;

HIGHWAY BRIDGES;

BAT; BRIDGE; COLLISION; DATA SET; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FLIGHT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HEDGEROW; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MORTALITY; MOTORWAY; MOVEMENT; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TREELINE; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; VULNERABILITY;

MYOTIS; PLECOTUS AURITUS;

EID: 84861571866     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2012.03.015     Document Type: Article

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