Changes in behavioural responses to infrastructure affect local and regional connectivity - A simulation study on pond breeding amphibians

Nature Conservation

Volumn 5, Issue , 2013, Pages 13-28

  Pontoppidan, Maj Britt ^a   Nachman, Cösta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Individual based modelling; Pond breeding amphibians; Rana arvalis; Road avoidance; Road mortality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901785279     PISSN: 13146947     EISSN: 13143301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3897/natureconservation.5.4611     Document Type: Article

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