Prevention of Amphibian Mortality in Roadside Ditch.
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- Okochi I
- Insect Managemellt Laboratory, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute
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- Okawabata O
- Forest Road Lab., For. Forest Prod. Res. Inst.
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- Kurashina N
- Grad. Sch. of Sci. and Technol., Niigata Univ.
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- Other Title
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- 道路側溝での両生類の転落死防止方法
- ドウロ ソッコウ デ ノ リョウセイルイ ノ テンラクシ ボウシ ホウホウ
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Abstract
Mortality of amphibians due to roadside ditches has been a matter of concern recently in Japan. Two experiments were done, aimed at prevention of this mortality. A slope attachment improved the chance of the eastern-Japanese common toad, Bufo japonicus formosus, escaping from a roadside ditch. However, since the Japanese brown frog, Rana japonica, escaped by jumping from the ditch, the slope attachment did not change the number of frogs remaining in the ditch. The angle of escape slope on which toadlets could climb was less than 30 degree. Thus, we recommended a shallow V-shaped ditch with an angles of less than 30 degrees for better protection of migrating amphibians.
Journal
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- JOURNAL OF THE JAPANESE FORESTRY SOCIETY
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JOURNAL OF THE JAPANESE FORESTRY SOCIETY 83 (2), 125-129, 2001
THE JAPANESE FORESTRY SOCIETY
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- CRID
- 1390001206358993792
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- NII Article ID
- 110002830969
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- NII Book ID
- AN00198561
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- ISSN
- 21858195
- 0021485X
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- NDL BIB ID
- 5771828
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- JaLC
- IRDB
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- CiNii Articles
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