High road mortality of Dolichophis caspius in southern Romania. Is this a problem? What can we do?

North-Western Journal of Zoology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 370-373

  Covaciu Marcov, Severus Daniel ^a   Ferenţi, Sára ^a,b   Ghira, Ioan V ^b   Sas, István ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ORADEA   (Romania)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Danube meadow; Dolichophis caspius; Road kill; Southern romania

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869040169     PISSN: 15849074     EISSN: 18435629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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