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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Predicting the Effectiveness of Wildlife Fences Along Roads: How Long is Long Enough?
Wildlife fences that are too short often fail because of the fence-end effect, where roadkill ‘hotspots’ are simply shifted to new locations just beyond the end of the fence. Using wood turtles as a model species, we investigated how fence effectiveness depends on the length of the fence and developed a tool for practitioners to determine how long their fences need to be in order to be effective.
