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https://doi.org/10.5194/we-3-33-2002
© Author(s) 2002. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
An assessment of wildlife road casulties – the potential discrepancy between numbers counted and numbers killed
F. M. Slater
School of Biosciences, Cardiff Univ., Llysdinam Field Centre, Newbridge-on-Wye, Powys, UK
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