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The effect of infrastructure on the invasion of a generalist predator: Pied crows in southern Africa as a case-study

2017-01-01

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Corridors can favour range expansion of generalists. Specifically, roads have been suspected of facilitating invasion. In southern Africa, pied crows (Corvus alba) have either colonised or increased in abundance, perhaps because climate warming has shifted their available habitat, assisted by roads. We investigated the link between abundance of this generalist bird species and roadkill, taking into account whether...

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Literature Corpus work: 338c2f9d-1bf7-5698-8929-87fe0510a588
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2016.11.026

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