How effective is road mitigation at reducing road-kill? A meta-analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2016, Pages

  Rytwinski, Trina ^a   Soanes, Kylie ^b,g   Jaeger, Jochen A G ^c   Fahrig, Lenore ^a   Findlay, C Scott ^d   Houlahan, Jeff ^e   Van Ree, Rodney Der ^b   Van Der Grift, Edgar A ^f  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

^d Ottawa Carleton Institute of Biology   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^f WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAMMAL; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; VELOCITY; WILDLIFE; ANIMAL; MOTOR VEHICLE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MOTOR VEHICLES;

EID: 84995912075     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0166941     Document Type: Article

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