Research
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Here you’ll find easy-to-read summaries of scientifically rigorous, evidence-based and peer-reviewed publications from around the world to help you better plan, build and manage ecologically sustainable linear infrastructure.
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Road verges are corridors and roads are barriers for the movements of flower-visiting insects
The opposite effects of roads (barriers) and road verges (corridors) have been not studied simultaneously and it is therefore unknown what the overall effect of road infrastructure is on the populations of pollinating insects. We used an experimental approach that allowed us to simulate pollen transfer between flowers placed in road verges with different flower densities to track the movement of flower-visiting insects in road environments.