The impacts of roads and other infrastructure on mammal and bird populations: a meta-analysis.
By Ana Benítez‐López, Rob Alkemade, Pita A. Verweij. 2010
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Subfields: Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
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Citations in the corpus
- Habitat urbanization and its effects on birds (2015, background): “In their meta-analysis, Benítez-Lopez et al. (2010) found a general decrease in bird population densities with the increased proximity of roads.”
- Road traffic noise modifies behaviour of a keystone species (2014, background): “The effects on biodiversity from this expansion are likely to be substantial (Benítez-L opez et al., 2010), and it is crucial that we are able to quantify the behavioural and fitness costs of different road-related disturbance factors, such as noise, in order to design and implement effective…”
- Moving in the Anthropocene: Global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements (2018, neutral): “reduced vagility on these processes (27, 28).”
- Do species life history traits explain population responses to roads? A meta-analysis (2012, background): “Roads and traffic reduce populations of a wide variety of species (Fahrig and Rytwinski, 2009; Benítez-López et al., 2010), and efforts to mitigate road effects are now common in new highway construction projects (Beckmann and Hilty, 2010).”
- Relative effects of road mortality and decreased connectivity on population genetic diversity (2011, background): “Such mortality often leads to reduction in population size (reviewed in Benítez-López et al., 2010; Fahrig and Rytwinski, 2009).”
- Direct Mortality of Birds from Anthropogenic Causes (2015, neutral): “Meta-analyses of the indirect effects of roads have shown clear declines in local bird abundance near roads (Fahrig & Rytwinski 2009, Benitez-Lopez et al. 2010), but these responses may be at least partially driven by other road-related stressors, such as habitat loss and noise.”
- Difference in spatiotemporal patterns of wildlife road-crossings and wildlife-vehicle collisions (2012, background): “Roads fragment wildlife habitat, facilitate human access into remote areas, and can have negative impact on wildlife abundance (Forman and Alexander, 1998; Martinéz-Abraín et al., 2009; Benítez-Lopéz et al., 2010).”
- Anthropogenic Noise Alters Bat Activity Levels and Echolocation Calls (2015, background): “A meta-analytical study found that bird densities decline within 1 km of infrastructure and non-volant mammal densities are reduced within 5 km (Benitez-Lopez et al., 2010).”