Infrastructure features outperform environmental variables explaining rabbit abundance around motorways.

Human disturbance is widespread across landscapes in the form of roads that alter wildlife populations. Knowing which road features are responsible for the species response and their relevance in comparison with environmental variables will provide useful information for effective conservation measures. We sampled relative abundance of European rabbits, a very widespread species, in motorway verges at regional scale, in an area with large variability in environmental and infrastructure conditions. Environmental variables included vegetation structure, plant productivity, distance to water sources, and altitude. Infrastructure characteristics were the type of vegetation in verges, verge width, traffic volume, and the presence of embankments. We performed a variance partitioning analysis to determine the relative importance of two sets of variables on rabbit abundance. Additionally, we identified the most important …

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Planillo A. y Malo J.E. Infrastructure features outperform environmental variables explaining rabbit abundance around motorways. Wiley-Blackwell, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3709

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Date of creation 2025-05-23
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