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The link between roadkills distribution and the surrounding landscape in two ...
A research on wildlife road-kills, mostly medium-sized mammals, has been conducted for two years along two highways (namely A-15 and A-10) in the Euro Siberian area of northwest... -
Importance of roadside habitats for biodiversity: what do we know?
In an ever-expanding world, impacts of human activity on the global environment are inevitable. The construction of roads and other linear transport infrastructure leads not... -
A national program to monitor fauna roadkills in Portugal.
Infraestruturas de Portugal (IP) is the Portuguese public company holding a long term concession contract of the national road and rail infrastructures in Portugal. IP manages... -
Cross-scale changes in bird behavior around a high speed railway: from landsc...
Large-scale transportation infrastructures, such as high-speed railway (HSR) systems, cause changes in surrounding ecosystems, thus generating direct and indirect impacts on... -
Methods to monitor and mitigate wildlife mortality in railways.
Recording wildlife mortality on railways is challenging as they have narrow corridors and lower accessibility. To improve mitigation measures, surveys must be systematic and... -
Effects of woodland islets introduced in a Mediterranean agricultural landsca...
This study assesses whether the afforestation approach consisting in the introduction of woodland islets in “agricultural seas” can reconcile the restoration of woody vegetation... -
Efecto barrera inducido por una autovía sobre las poblaciones de grandes mamí...
The situation of wolf population in an area affected by the construction of a motorway is studied. Since well established populations of wolf, roe deer and wild boar are located... -
Roadkills in Europe: areas of high risk of collision and critical for populat...
Roads and other linear infrastructures are among the largest and most visible human-made artefacts on the planet today and represent a threat for both endangered and common... -
Aproximación a los primeros resultados globales provisionales del PMVC.
First results of the national survey of vertebrate mortality in roads. All provinces were covered. Data distribution was not uniform among provinces. More than 29,000 dead... -
Assessing the consistency of hotspot and hot-moment patterns of wildlife road...
Spatial and temporal aggregation patterns of wildlife-vehicle collisions are recurrently used to inform where and when mitigation measures are most needed. The aim of this study... -
Road and topography effects on invasion: edge effects in rat foraging pattern...
We studied the effect of road edges on foraging activity by introduced ship or roof rats Rattus rattus in road-fragmented laurel and pine forests on Tenerife (Canary Islands).... -
Caminsdefauna.cat: a crowdmap of the ecological connectivity of catalan roads.
Caminsdefauna.cat: a crowdmap of the ecological connectivity of catalan roads. Palabras clave: Database, Fauna passage, Geographical information system, Highway, Underpass -
Spatio-temporal impacts of roads on the persistence of populations: analytic ...
Roads can have drastic impacts on wildlife populations. Although there is wide recognition of the negative impacts caused by roads and a wealth of practical studies, there is a... -
Guía para mitigar los atropellos de murciélagos.
Guía para mitigar los atropellos de murciélagos. -
Effects of forest fragmentation on the distribution of the lizard Psammodromu...
This study reports the population responses of the lizard Psammodromus algirus to forest fragmentation by comparing its distribution in two contrasting situations of habitat... -
Mortandad de murciélagos por atropello en carreteras del sur de la provincia ...
This article shows the data obtained from run over bats during 1998 and 1999 in South Huesca roads 42 bats from 12 different species were found; the area 17 different species.... -
Intelligent systems for mapping amphibian mortality on Portuguese roads.
Roads have multiple effects on wildlife, from animal mortality, habitat and population fragmentation, to modification of animal reproductive behavior. Amphibians in particular,... -
Assessing behaviour states of a forest carnivore in a road-dominated landscap...
Anthropogenic infrastructures and land-use changes are major threats to animal movements across heterogeneous landscapes. Yet, the behavioural consequences of such constraints... -
Efectos de la fragmentación sobre el paisaje y la estructura de los encinares...
This work analyses the effects of fragmentation on the landscape, vegetation structure and the vertebrates of Iberian fragmented forests, with particular emphasis on Holm oak... -
Influence of new irrigated croplands on wild boar (Sus scrofa) road kills in ...
Influencia de los nuevos cultivos en regadío sobre las colisiones de vehículos con jabalí (Sus scrofa) en el Noroeste de España Las poblaciones de jabalí han aumentado en número...