Overabundant wild ungulate populations in Europe: management with consideration of socio‐ecological consequences

AM Valente, P Acevedo, AM Figueiredo… - Mammal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Throughout recent years, ungulates have experienced significant increases in numbers and
geographic range sizes in Europe, becoming locally overabundant populations in some …

[PDF][PDF] Current knowledge on wildlife mortality in railways

SM Santos, F Carvalho, A Mira - Railway ecology, 2017 - library.oapen.org
Wildlife mortality on roads has received considerable attention in the past years, allowing
the collection of abundant data for a wide range of taxonomic groups. On the contrary …

Inclusion of road ecology criteria within environmental Impact assessment

P Dvořáková, Z Keken, L Wimmerová… - … Research Part D …, 2024 - Elsevier
Transport infrastructure construction and its future expansion is a worldwide phenomenon.
Within road ecology, scientific attention has focused on effectiveness of mitigation measures …

Railway mortality for several mammal species increases with train speed, proximity to water, and track curvature

CC St. Clair, J Whittington, A Forshner… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Railways are a major source of direct mortality for many populations of large mammals, but
they have been less studied or mitigated than roads. We evaluated temporal and spatial …

[PDF][PDF] Railways and wildlife: A case study of train-elephant collisions in northern West Bengal, India

M Roy, R Sukumar - Railway ecology, 2017 - library.oapen.org
The extensive network of the Indian Railways cuts through several forested landscapes,
resulting in collisions of trains with a variety of wildlife species, including the largest land …

The effect of traffic intensity and animal activity on probability of ungulate-vehicle collisions in the Czech Republic

T Kušta, Z Keken, M Ježek, M Holá, P Šmíd - Safety Science, 2017 - Elsevier
Traffic infrastructure and its traffic flows has rapidly developed in recent decades. This
development brings benefits to society, but on the other hand has many negative impacts on …

Design and development of a fog-assisted elephant corridor over a railway track

MK Mondal, R Mandal, S Banerjee, U Biswas, JCW Lin… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Elephants are one of the largest animals on earth and are found in forests, grasslands and
savannahs in the tropical and subtropical regions of Asia and Africa. A country like India …

Linking habitat composition, local population densities and traffic characteristics to spatial patterns of ungulate‐train collisions

KD Jasińska, M Żmihorski… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The total length of railways worldwide exceeds 1 million kilometres and recent railway
development directly impacts wildlife because of animal‐train collisions. Few studies …

Monitoring wildlife crossing structures along highways in Changbai Mountain, China

Y Wang, L Guan, Z Piao, Z Wang, Y Kong - Transportation research part D …, 2017 - Elsevier
In China, the construction and monitoring of wildlife crossing structures is uncommon.
Mountainous area occupies two-thirds area of China. A lot of tunnels (similar to overpasses …

Seasonal and individual variation in the use of rail-associated food attractants by grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) in a national park

MH Murray, S Fassina, JB Hopkins III, J Whittington… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Similar to vehicles on roadways, trains frequently kill wildlife via collisions along railways.
Despite the prevalence of this mortality worldwide, little is known about the relative …