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. To find information on a specific topic, please use the SEARCH function and search by keywords, including topic, species, location and/or author.

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Have you recently published a peer-reviewed scientific paper on transportation and ecology? Do you want practitioners all around the world to find and use your results? Then you need to contribute a Research Summary!

Darrelle Moffat Darrelle Moffat

Barriers to fauna-sensitive road design and how we can overcome them

Our recent survey of the transport planning and policy literature revealed substantial barriers that obstruct the consideration and implementation of fauna-sensitive road design (FSRD). Although the review identified several ecological support tools that could be useful to transport practitioners, these are of limited use without ‘action-oriented’ research to support their adoption and application of FSRD more broadly.

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Katherine Aburrow Katherine Aburrow

Filling knowledge gaps at the landscape level in planning roadkill mitigation measures may offer optimal cost-efficiency solutions for multiple species and taxa

A dramatic global rise in wildlife mortality due to vehicle collision has boosted a wide interest across disciplines to mitigate this impact through the installation of structures such as overpasses, underpasses, fences, etc. These structures can restore connectivity and improve population viability, even though research has found that some structures need to increase their effectiveness. So, it is more important than ever for optimal planning initiatives to be more precise, resilient, and adaptable enough to work for a wide range of species and taxa.

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