Synopsis:
This book addresses issues of landscape fragmentation and ecology emanating from the construction and use of roads. The text highlights ecosystem implications of this type of linear disturbance in relation to the following topics:
· Roads, vehicles, and transportation planning
· Vegetation and roadsides
· Wildlife populations and collision mortality
· Water, sediment, and chemical flows
· Aquatic ecosystems
· Wind, noise, and atmospheric effects
· Road networks and landscape fragmentation
Conclusions:
Book addresses issues of landscape fragmentation and ecology emanating from the construction and use of roads. The text highlights ecosystem implications of this type of linear disturbance in relation to vegetation and roadsides, wildlife populations and collision mortality, water and air quality, and landscape fragmentation.
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