A few large roads or many small ones? How to accommodate growth in vehicle numbers to minimise impacts on wildlife

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Rhodes, Jonathan R ^a   Lunney, Daniel ^b,c   Callaghan, John ^d   McAlpine, Clive A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d Australian Koala Foundation   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); KOALA; MORTALITY; MOTOR VEHICLE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDICTION; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; WILDLIFE; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; MOTOR VEHICLES; PHASCOLARCTIDAE; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84898634907     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091093     Document Type: Article

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