Biodiversity is being lost at an increased rate as a result of human activities. One of the
major threats to biodiversity is infrastructural development. We used meta-analyses to study …

The initial response of individuals to human‐induced environmental change is often
behavioural. This can improve the performance of individuals under sudden, large‐scale …

Roads fragment landscapes and trigger human colonization and degradation of
ecosystems, to the detriment of biodiversity and ecosystem functions. The planet's remaining …

Birds of prey have been, in comparison to other avian groups, an uncommon study model,
mainly due to the limitations imposed by their conservative life strategy (low population …

Background Road mortality is probably the best-known and visible impact of roads upon
wildlife. Although several factors influence road-kill counts, carcass persistence time is …

Efforts to mitigate road effects are now common in new highway construction projects. For
effective mitigation of road effects it is important to identify the species whose populations …

The urbanization process affects faunal distributions and movement patterns, contributing
directly to biotic homogenization and representing an important threat to biodiversity. In …

One potential contributor to the worldwide decline of bird populations is the increasing
prevalence of roads, which have several negative effects on birds and other vertebrates. We …

Roads can have negative impacts on wildlife through indirect effects such as fragmentation
of habitat, or through direct effects such as fatal collisions with vehicles. Wildlife deaths on …

Understanding the distribution of biodiversity across the Earth is one of the most challenging
questions in biology. Much research has been directed at explaining the species latitudinal …