Linking habitat suitability and road mortalities across geographic ranges

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1167-1181

  Roger, Erin ^a   Bino, Gilad ^a   Ramp, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Common wombat; GAMs; Habitat suitability modelling, protected areas; Road kill; Spatial analysis; Threatening processes

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT USE; HERBIVORE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MARSUPIAL; MORTALITY; PROTECTED AREA; REFUGE; ROADKILL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

VOMBATIDAE; VOMBATUS URSINUS;

EID: 84865996258     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-012-9769-5     Document Type: Article

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