Road kill of snakes on a highway in an Orinoco ecosystem: Landscape factors and species traits related to their mortality

ABSTRACT: We sampled the snake fauna in 13 landscapes along 80 km of highway and in the adjacent vegetation cover in the Colombian Llanos. We registered 119 snakes belonging to 33 species. Traffic levels significantly influenced rates of snake road kill, while adjacent vegetation cover, rainfall sea...

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Autores:

Páez Nieto, Vivian Patricia
Bock Garnier, Brian Carl
Rincón Aranguri, Mónica
Urbina Cardona, Nicolás
Galeano Muñoz, Sandra Patricia

Tipo de recurso:

Article of investigation

Fecha de publicación:

2019

Institución:

Universidad de Antioquia

Repositorio:

Repositorio UdeA

Idioma:

eng

OAI Identifier:

oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/36212

Acceso en línea:

https://hdl.handle.net/10495/36212

Palabra clave:

Serpientes
Snakes
Colombia
Ecología
Ecology
Reptil
Reptiles
Ecosistema
Ecosystems
Landscape metrics
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openAccess

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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/