[HTML][HTML] The lost road: Do transportation networks imperil wildlife population persistence?

R Barrientos, F Ascensão, M D'Amico, C Grilo… - Perspectives in Ecology …, 2021 - Elsevier
The global road network is rapidly growing associated with human economic development.
This growth also entails a high toll for biodiversity, with several well-documented negative …

A review of searcher efficiency and carcass persistence in infrastructure-driven mortality assessment studies

R Barrientos, RC Martins, F Ascensão, M D'Amico… - Biological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Infrastructures in natural areas are expanding rapidly worldwide. Consequently, roads,
power-lines, and wind-farms cause millions of fatalities across several animal groups …

Environmental challenges for the Belt and Road Initiative

F Ascensão, L Fahrig, AP Clevenger, RT Corlett… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The Belt and Road Initiative will greatly influence the future of global trade. However, it may
also promote permanent environmental degradation. We call for rigorous strategic …

Infrastructure and non-human life: A wider ontology

M Barua - Progress in human geography, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This article develops a wider ontology of infrastructure. It argues that infrastructures not only
hasten the flow of materials but produce non-human mobilities and immobilities that …

How effective is road mitigation at reducing road-kill? A meta-analysis

T Rytwinski, K Soanes, JAG Jaeger, L Fahrig… - PLoS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Road traffic kills hundreds of millions of animals every year, posing a critical threat to the
populations of many species. To address this problem there are more than forty types of …

China's new Eurasian ambitions: the environmental risks of the Silk Road Economic Belt

EF Tracy, E Shvarts, E Simonov… - Eurasian Geography and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
China is moving ahead with the Silk Road Economic Belt, an ambitious infrastructure
development agenda with the distinct promise of regional and sub-regional economic …

Conservation threats from roadkill in the global road network

C Grilo, L Borda‐de‐Água, P Beja… - Global Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The road network is increasing globally but the consequences of roadkill on the viability
of wildlife populations are largely unknown. We provide a framework that allows us to …

Fence ecology: Frameworks for understanding the ecological effects of fences

A McInturff, W Xu, CE Wilkinson, N Dejid… - Bioscience, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Investigations of the links between human infrastructure and ecological change have
provided eye-opening insights into humanity's environmental impacts and contributed to …

Roadkill risk and population vulnerability in European birds and mammals

C Grilo, E Koroleva, R Andrášik, M Bíl… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Roads represent a threat to biodiversity, primarily through increased mortality from collisions
with vehicles. Although estimating roadkill rates is an important first step, how roads affect …

Ecological connectivity research in urban areas

S LaPoint, N Balkenhol, J Hale, J Sadler… - Functional …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The successful movement of individuals is fundamental to life. Facilitating these movements
by promoting ecological connectivity has become a central theme in ecology and …