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.
Research summaries are listed chronologically according to when they were published here.
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Warning signals triggered by trains increase escape time for wildlife
To reduce wildlife mortality from train collisions, we invented a warning system that emits flashing lights and bell sounds prior to the arrival of a train. A test of this system showed that animals fled earlier from trains in the presence of warning signals.
Stop ignoring the small! Clues for conservation using roadkill data.
This study in Mexico showed that small wildlife experienced high rates of mortality and just like large charismatic species, they also require and deserve actions to avoid extinction.
Where Jaguars Cross Other Will Follow
Jaguars together with other neotropical species only used purpose-built wildlife underpasses under a highway in Mexico, even when ‘large enough’ drainage structures were available. Drainage structures may work as crossings for some species but can’t substitute proper wildlife underpasses.