Vertebrate road mortality estimates: Effects of sampling methods and carcass removal

Biological Conservation

Volumn 157, Issue , 2013, Pages 317-323

  Teixeira, Fernanda Zimmermann ^a   Coelho, Artur Vicente Pfeifer ^a   Esperandio, Isadora Beraldi ^a   Kindel, Andreas ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Detectability; Mortality magnitude; Road kill rates; Scavenger; Searcher efficiency; Wildlife vehicle accidents

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BODY SIZE; CARRION; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; MORTALITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERIODICITY; POPULATION ESTIMATION; ROADKILL; SAMPLING; SCAVENGER; VERTEBRATE; WILD POPULATION;

BRAZIL;

AVES; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84872422653     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.09.006     Document Type: Article

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