Wildlife Road Mortality Estimation at Gulf Islands National Seashore
Cohen JB and Durkin MM. Wildlife Road Mortality Estimation at Gulf Islands National Seashore. Research Permit and Reporting System
Gulf Islands National Seashore hosts breeding populations of several species of migratory beach nesting birds, including the Florida state-threatened Snowy Plover (Charadrius nivosus). There have been many discoveries in the past several years of carcasses on Fort Pickens Road and J. Earl Bowden Way (Santa Rosa) of Snowy Plovers and terns apparently killed by motor vehicles. A first step in ascertaining the population-level risk of road mortality is to accurately estimate the number of ani
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- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- Cohen, Jonathan; Durkin, Maureen
- Publisher
- Research Permit and Reporting System
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- GUIS