The experimental effects of off-road vehicle sounds on three species of desert vertebrates
Subtitle: report to the Bureau of Land Management
By: by Michael C. Bondello, Bayard H. Brattstrom
Contributors: Brattstrom, Bayard H.; United States. Bureau of Land Management
Publisher: [U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management]
Published: 1979
Place of publication: [Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 131
Subjects: Toads; Effect of off-road vehicles on; Lizards; Kangaroo rats; Effect of noise on; Deserts; Noise; Off-road vehicles; California
Description: "Represents the final phase of a three-part study funded entirely by the Bureau of Land Management. The purposes of this study were to provide the BLM Desert Plan Staff with a comprehensive review of the existing literature concerning noise and its effects on vertebrates, baseline data describing ambient sound levels that occur in the deserts of California, and experimental data regarding the impact of ORV (off-road vehicle) sounds on desert vertebrates"--Page ii.
Notes: Cover title.

Contract no. CA-060-CT7-2737.

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available online via Internet Archive.
Table of contents: title: pt. I : Couch's spadefoot toad (Scaphiopus couchi); title: pt. II : Mohave fringe-toed lizard (Uma scoparia); title: pt. III : Desert kangaroo rat (Dipodomys deserti).