An assessment of wildlife road casulties – the potential discrepancy between numbers counted and numbers killed
By artificially baiting roads, it is shown that simple counts of wildlife corpses found on roads are severe underestimate of the actual road casualty rate. The death rate can be 12–16 times that observed by simply counting corpses particularly from a moving vehicle. Removal rates depend on...
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| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2002-05-01
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| Series: | Web Ecology |
| Online Access: | http://www.web-ecol.net/3/33/2002/we-3-33-2002.pdf |