AW Coffin - Journal of transport Geography, 2007 - Elsevier
Transportation infrastructure affects the structure of ecosystems, the dynamics of ecosystem function, and has direct effects on ecosystem components, including their species …
1. Urbanisation is one of the main land‐use changes behind global insect collapse. Despite that previous studies have described the negative effects of urbanisation on insect …
How does nature work in our human-created city, suburb, and exurb/peri-urb? Indeed how is ecology-including its urban water, soil, air, plant, and animal foundations-spatially entwined …
Road verges provide habitats that have considerable potential as a tool for pollinator conservation, especially given the significant area of land that they collectively cover …
Landscape genetics has emerged as a new research area that integrates population genetics, landscape ecology and spatial statistics. Researchers in this field can combine the …
As urbanisation is set to continue, understanding the impact on wildlife becomes increasingly important if we are to be able to conserve biodiversity. As an excellent group of …
K Ahrné, J Bengtsson, T Elmqvist - PloS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Background Bumble bees and other wild bees are important pollinators of wild flowers and several cultivated crop plants, and have declined in diversity and abundance during the last …
Roads can act as barriers to animal movement through mortality during crossing attempts or behavioral avoidance. This barrier effect has negative demographic and genetic …
Marginal habitats such as hedgerows or roadsides become especially important for the conservation of biodiversity in highly modified landscapes. With concerns of a global …