Biodiversity collision blackspots in Poland: Separation causality from stochasticity in roadkills of butterflies

Biological Conservation

Volumn 187, Issue , 2015, Pages 154-163

  Skórka, Piotr ^a   Lenda, Magdalena ^a   Moroń, Dawid ^b   Martyka, Rafał ^a   Tryjanowski, Piotr ^c   Sutherland, William J ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF NATURE CONSERVATION   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION OF ANIMALS   (Poland)

^c POZNA UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conservation; Decision making; Interpolation; Invertebrates; Road ecology; Roadkills; Spatial clusters

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; COLLISION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; MORTALITY; ROAD TRAFFIC; STOCHASTICITY; WILD POPULATION;

POLAND;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; PAPILIONOIDEA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84928814997     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2015.04.017     Document Type: Article

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