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Amphibian road-kills in Mediterranean habitats.
D’Amico, M. Amphibian road-kills in Mediterranean habitats. MSc thesis. Estación Biológica de Doñana y Universidad Pablo de Olavide. [s.l.]: Pablo de Olavide University. 2009,... -
Effectiveness of an anti-bird strike tubular screen in a high-speed railway.
A High speed trains run at speeds over 250 km/h, and birds which coincide in their trajectories are thus unable to avoid crashing or being affected by turbulence provoked by... -
Wire marking results in a small but significant reduction in avian mortality ...
Collision with electric power lines is a conservation problem for many bird species. Although the implementation of flight diverters is rapidly increasing, few well-designed... -
Roads, traffic and verges: big problems and big opportunities for small mammals.
We consider small mammals as shrews and moles, small marsupials, hedgehogs, mice and rats, and other rodents, rabbits, and hares commonly designated as ‘prey species’(ie, those... -
Threatened vascular flora of Sierra Nevada (Southern Spain).
Threatened flora of Sierra Nevada (2100 vascular taxa -species and subspecies- catalogued, which means 30% of the entire vascular flora of Iberian Peninsula) has been studied.... -
Distribution of an increasing roe deer population in a fragmented Mediterrane...
Tellería, J.L. y Virgós, E. Distribution of an increasing roe deer population in a fragmented Mediterranean landscape. Ecography. [s.l.]: Nordic Society Oikos. 1997, Vol. 20,... -
Los atropellos de fauna cinegética en la provincia de Zamora.
Colino Rabanal, V.J., Peris, S.J. y Lizana Avia, M. Los atropellos de fauna cinegética en la provincia de Zamora. Anuario del Instituto de Estudios Zamoranos Florián de Ocampo.... -
Human footprint and mountain lion territory use in human-dominated landscapes.
This is the first study that combines fine-scale radiotelemetry with landscape light, and road noise and light pollution. Our findings will be of interest for mountain lion... -
The risk of being hungry: influence of prey availability in verges on predato...
Road verges may provide important refuges for small fauna, particularly when roads cross intensive agricultural or grazed landscapes. In these circumstances, the increasing use... -
Metodologías paramétricas para la evaluación ambiental estratégica.
Este artículo refleja lo esencial de una línea de investigación desarrollada por Barcelona Regional, los frutos de la cual son diversos índices socioecológicos en diferentes... -
Factors influencing vertebrate carcasses retention time on roads: a prelimina...
Monitoring vertebrate roadkills is a task increasingly done in the last decades in order to better evaluate the impact of roads on wildlife. However, these studies usually... -
Magnitude, composition and spatiotemporal patterns of vertebrate roadkill at ...
Although roadkill studies on a large scale are challenging, they can provide valuable information to assess the impact of road traffic on animal populations. Over 22 months... -
Living on the verge: are roads a more suitable refuge for small mammals than ...
The retention of natural habitat corridors is a useful and practical conservation tool that can attenuate the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on wildlife. Linear... -
A review of searcher efficiency and carcass persistence in infrastructure-dri...
Infrastructures in natural areas are expanding rapidly worldwide. Consequently, roads, power-lines, and wind-farms cause millions of fatalities across several animal groups.... -
Vertebrados atropellados en dos carreteras orensanas. Primer informe.
Data on vertebrate mortality in two roads of Orense province (NW Spain). A total of 18 km were surveyed in one national and one local road during six months on a weekly basis. A... -
Effects of linear infrastructures on the composition of local vertebrate scav...
Vertebrate scavengers provide an essential ecosystem service through the removal of carrion in natural landscapes, including wildlife casualties caused by linear infrastructures... -
Daños producidos por especies silvestres en accidentes de tráfico.
de Palma Villalon, A. Daños producidos por especies silvestres en accidentes de tráfico. II Simposio sobre el corzo en España. Luarca: Asociación del Corzo Español. 2002, pags.... -
Identification methods and deterministic factors of owl roadkill hotspot loca...
Road fatalities are among the major causes of mortality for Strigiformes species and may affect the population's survival. The use of mitigation strategies must be considered to... -
Key connectors in protected forest area networks and the impact of highways: ...
The connectivity of protected area networks depends on key elements located in strategic positions within the landscape, which uphold the ecological fluxes and sustain the... -
Behavioural responses to changing landscapes: Flock structure and anti-predat...
We analysed the effects of forest fragmentation on the flock structure of insectivorous forest passerines (Parus, Aegithalos, Certhia, Regulus, etc.), and on the anti-predator...