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Wildlife On Roads
Kari E. Gunson, Frederick W. Schueler
miękka okładka
Language: English
This handbook is ideal for naturalists, students, and citizen scientists who would like to collect accurate and complete wildlife on-road data for application to mitigation planning. However, professionals and practitioners will also benefit as well. There is an extensive literature review through-out the book, and also species essays that will supplement road ecology data collections. The species essays focus on vertebrates found in Ontario, but because the book is organized from higher to lower taxa (Class-Order-Family-Species) and why these animal groups are susceptible to road mortality there is something to learn from this in all regions. We wish this handbook to be a model for other regions.
The book is organized by vertebrate group: amphibians, turtles, snakes and lizards, mammals and birds and a data management section. Each animal chapter first describes why these animals are on roads and what makes them vulnerable to road-kill. Following these literature reviews the diagnostic features, in context of road-killed carcasses, are outlined for each family and species groups. The handbook features a data management section and an iNaturalist project where concerned citizens can deposit and download their data.
- A literature review piece outlining the impacts of roads on amphibians, turtles, squamates, mammals and birds with tips for collecting on-road information
- Followed by species essays of diagnostic features relevant to road-killed animals as well as information as to why specific species may be found alive or dead-on-roads
- A concluding chapter on citizen science data collection and management, with details on collecting location and photo information for upload into on-line databases such as iNaturalist
- 12 relevant case studies on on-road citizen science projects and mitigation solutions in Ontario
- 140 photos relevant to key diagnostic features of species and/or to illustrate animals as observed on roads
- 12 illustrations comparing and contrasting key diagnostic features by species and taxa by Aleta Karstad: an award-winning Canadian nature artist
- A customized data sheet with fields for citizen science on-road data collection along with link to an iNaturalist database for upload of observations in Ontario
- Field and on-line resource section for each relevant taxa
- 142 references sorted by each relevant taxa
- 5 page glossary of terms relevant to wildlife on roads data collection
- Index of species with provincial (Ontario) and federal (Canada) conservation status
| Autor | Kari E. Gunson, Frederick W. Schueler |
| Tytuł | WILDLIFE ON ROADS |
| Objętość | 232 strony |
| Okładka | miękka |
| Wymiary | mm |
| Wydawnictwo | Inne |
| Termin wydania | 2018 |
| Uwagi | 140 kolorowych fotografii, mapy |
