Field Methods to Evaluate the Impacts of Roads on Wildlife

Abstract

Our understanding of the ecological impacts of roads and traffic, and indeed other linear infrastructure such as railways and utility easements, has burgeoned in the past two decades. These ecological effects are numerous and diverse and can extend for many kilometres beyond the road itself. The suite of survey techniques and study designs to quantify these effects is broad, and there are a number of important steps or key points to help ensure the results of surveys are reliable, collected in a cost-efficient manner, explanatory and inform management. 1 Formulating and articulating the research and monitoring questions is essential to designing relevant field surveys. 2 Locate and use exist..