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Roadkill as a threat to global mammal conservation.
The ongoing expansion of the global road network and the associated growth in traffic intensity represent a threat for many vertebrate species. With 25 million kilometres of new... -
Impacto del tráfico rodado sobre los vertebrados del Parque Natural de L'Albu...
Survey of vertebrate mortality in Albufera Natural Park, E Spain. A 8-km stretch of a local road was intensively surveyed. The road passes right on the border between two... -
Amphibian mortality levels on Spanish country roads: descriptive and spatial ...
Road-kills are the greatest source of direct human-induced wildlife mortality, especially in amphibians. Country roads could act as the most important source of mortality when... -
Factors affecting bird communities in fragments of secondary pine forests in ...
We assessed the influence of size, extent of isolation and vegetation structure of secondary forest fragments on the richness and species composition of breeding bird... -
Permeabilidad de los vallados cinegéticos de caza mayor. Efecto barrera e imp...
Los vallados cinegéticos de caza mayor pueden tener un efecto negativo sobre diversas especies de mamíferos terrestres (ungulados y carnívoros amenazados) similar al producido... -
Desarrollo de una metodología de integración paisajística de las autopistas.
Desarrollo de una metodología de integración paisajística de las autopistas. Palabras clave: Paisaje, Seguimiento -
Can we explain regional abundance and road‐kill patterns with variables deriv...
We evaluated the transferability of variables previously found to have a significant effect on European polecat Mustela putorius road‐kills at a local scale (i.e. 50m around... -
Recomendaciones básicas para la definición de corredores y la desfragmentació...
Recomendaciones básicas para la definición de corredores y la desfragmentación de infraestructuras para el oso pardo. -
Recent changes in landscape structure and function in a Mediterranean region ...
Changes in landscape patterns are analysed in two areas of southern Spain during the second half of the 20th century. There was a general trend of the human population to... -
Comparing spatial statistical methods to detect amphibian road mortality hots...
Animal mortality on roads is one of the main concerns on wildlife conservation. Due to their habitat requirements, amphibians became one of the most commonly road-killed group... -
Impacto de las infraestructuras de transporte sobre la naturaleza en el terri...
Impacto de las infraestructuras de transporte sobre la naturaleza en el territorio histórico de Álava. -
Monitoring the performance of wild-born and introduced lizards in a fragmente...
Ex situ conservation of animal populations may benefit from captive-breeding programmes, but these are criticised because they are assumed to be difficult, time-consuming and... -
Vertebrate predation on holm oak, Quercus ilex, acorns in a fragmented habita...
Vertebrate predation on holm oak, Quercus ilex, acorns in a fragmented habitat: effects on seedling recruitment. Palabras clave: Forest, Habitat fragmentation, Plant, Vegetation -
A road mobile mapping device for supervised classification of amphibians on r...
We present the classification results of a supervised algorithm of road images containing amphibians. We used a prototype of a mobile mapping system composed of a scanning... -
Vegetation response after removal of the invasive Carpobrotus hybrid complex ...
We evaluated the ecological success of the manual removal of Carpobrotus species, a putative hybrid complex of a South African perennial mat-forming plant, by comparing treated,... -
Impacto de las carreteras sobre la fauna.
Example of barrier effects in France. When roads are accessible to animals, they represent a serious danger for both car drivers and themselves. Amphibians carcasses can lead to... -
Changes in otter Lutra lutra distribution in Central Spain in the 1964–1995 p...
The partial recovery of the otter (Lutra lutra) in central Spain is explained by immigration from surrounding areas. Being migratory movements so important for otter... -
Mortalidad de rapaces en carreteras españolas.
A two-year survey of vertebrate mortality was carried out in Spain, the results showing that 5% of killed animals were raptors. Of these, mostly were nocturnal species (90.92%),... -
Tanteando en la oscuridad – efectividad de las medidas viarias para la mitiga...
En las últimas décadas los esfuerzos para minimizar el impacto potencial de las infraestructuras de transporte en la vida silvestre se han vuelto cada vez más importantes. Se ha... -
Estudio ecológico del zorro (Vulpes vulpes L., 1758) en la Sierra de Guadarrama.
This study reports that most resident adult red foxes used roads as the limits of their home ranges. One adult female, however, included one important road within her home...