Research
Making scientific research accessible
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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Mortality of bumblebee queens increases with traffic volume
Managing road verges to promote flowers has been proposed as a conservation tool for pollinating insects in many parts of the world but there is a concern that these habitats might be attracting the insects to a highly deadly environment. We investigated whether traffic mortality of bumblebee queens was impacted by the flowering plant diversity in the road verge and the traffic volume and found that the probability of observing dead queens quadrupled when traffic increased from 100 to 6000 vehicles per day.