Getting there: The role of wildlife crossing structures in restoring terrestrial habitat connectivity across roads

Natural Resources: Economics, Management and Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 167-206

  Tanner, Dawn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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