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Factors determining roadkills in a mammal carnivore are road type specific.
Carnivores are one of the most affected taxa by roadkill of their high mobility searching for food, mate or territory. We compared 85 polecat roadkills in highways with 73... -
Previsión de impactos de la autovía de enlace: CN-1 en Aduna (Guipuzcoa) con...
Metodología de Evaluación de Impacto Ambiental aplicada a la construcción de la autopista CN-1. Palabras clave: Evaluación de impacto ambiental, autopista -
Patrones de dispersión del lince ibérico (Lynx pardina) en Doñana e...
En este trabajo se informó sobre la muerte de 29 linces, 21% de las cuales fueron causadas por los vehículos en una carretera que rodea la parte occidental del Parque Nacional... -
Road verges provide connectivity for small mammals: a case study with wood...
Roads disrupt landscape connectivity for many terrestrial mammals. These infrastructures can be barriers to movement thereby threatening population persistence. Nonetheless,... -
Factors influencing wolf Canis lupus roadkills in Northwest Spain.
Roadkill is one of the most prominent causes of wildlife mortality. Much research effort has focussed on collisions with ungulates because of traffic safety. However, studies... -
Roadless and low-traffic areas as conservation targets in Europe.
With increasing road encroachment, habitat fragmentation by transport infrastructures has been a serious threat for European biodiversity. Areas with no roads or little traffic... -
Sampling effects on the identification of roadkill hotspots: implications...
Although locating wildlife roadkill hotspots is essential to mitigate road impacts, the influence of study design on hotspot identification remains uncertain. We evaluated how... -
Vertebrate ticks distribution and their role as vectors in relation to road...
Roads fragment vertebrate populations and affect the dynamics and dispersal patterns of vertebrate parasites. We evaluated how vertebrate ticks distribute near roads and road... -
Foraging, feeding, and physiological stress responses of wild wood mice to...
In nature, animals are exposed to a broad range of threats imposed by predators, which may strongly influence the ecology of prey species directly or indirectly by affecting... -
Towards a unified framework for studying the impact of linear infrastructures.
Towards a unified framework for studying the impact of linear infrastructures. Palabras clave: Infrastructure planning -
Banco de datos y centro de documentación acerca de la mortalidad de...
Se describe una base de datos que contiene 369 referencias de mortalidad de vertebrados por carreteras Palabras clave: Base de datos, Siniestralidad con fauna, Carretera,... -
Mortalidad de anfibios y reptiles en carreteras: informe sobre el estudio AHE-CODA.
Un listado comentado de reptiles y anfibios muertos en carreteras. Se identifican algunos puntos negros. Palabras clave: Anfibios, Punto, de, conflicto, Siniestralidad con... -
Frontiers for conservation: targeting European borders as conservation areas.
It is widely known that political borders should not hamper wildlife. Conservation actions involving several countries are perceived to bring large-scale benefits to nature... -
Response of carnivores to existing highway culverts and underpasses:...
Roads with high traffic volumes are a source of animal mortality, can disrupt normal animal movements and dispersal, and may represent a potentially serious threat to wildlife... -
Landscaping of a new wildlife overpass: small changes make big differences...
To strength cooperation between civil engineers and wildlife experts can bring powerful benefits to both biodiversity conservation and road infrastructure quality and... -
Wildlife crossing structures in the mitigation for transportation projects:...
Wildlife crossing structures are used to mitigate barrier effects and to reduce mortality. Many factors affect their effectivity, including typology, location and maintenance.... -
Objetivo de la Red de Corredores Ecolgógicos: La Marta europea (Martes martes).
Objetivo de la Red de Corredores Ecolgógicos: La Marta europea (Martes martes). Palabras clave: Conectividad, Marta -
Fatal attraction of short-tailed shearwaters to artificial lights.
Light pollution is increasing around the world and altering natural nightscapes with potential ecological and evolutionary consequences. A severe ecological perturbation caused... -
Impactes das vias rodoviárias na fauna silvestre. Relatório final.
Apresenta-se o relatório final do projecto Avaliar o impacto da mortalidade em populações de vertebrados em estradas do Alto Alentejo, e sua relação com o uso de passagens... -
Cars as a tool for monitoring and protecting biodiversity.
Cars as a tool for monitoring and protecting biodiversity.