Wildlife-vehicle collision hotspots at US highway extents: Scale and data source effects

Nature Conservation

Volumn 11, Issue , 2015, Pages 41-60

  Shilling, Fraser M ^a   Waetjen, David P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Citizen science; Informatics; Roadkill; Transportation; Wildlife movement; Wildlife observation; Wildlife vehicle collisions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944391560     PISSN: 13146947     EISSN: 13143301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3897/natureconservation.11.4438     Document Type: Article

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