Canopy bridges as road overpasses for wildlife in urban fragmented landscapes;Pontes de corda como passagens para animais silvestres em paisagens urbanas fragmentadas

Biota Neotropica

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 117-123

  Teixeira, Fernanda Zimmermann ^a   Printes, Rodrigo Cambará ^a,b   Fagundes, João Cláudio Godoy ^a   Alonso, André Chein ^a   Kindel, Andreas ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Mitigation; Power lines; Primates; Road; Rope bridge; Wildlife passage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877736170     PISSN: 16786424     EISSN: 16760611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1676-06032013000100013     Document Type: Article

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