New roads, agricultural projects, logging, and mining are claiming an ever greater area of
once-pristine Amazonian forest. The Millennium Ecosystems Assessment (MA) forecasts the …

… 4 (Railways as Barriers for Wildlife: Current Knowledge and Future Steps), Rafael Barrientos
and Luís Borda-de-Água examine the barrier effects of railways, reviewing the evidence and …

Although fractals have been applied in ecology for some time, multifractals have, in contrast,
received little attention. In this article, we apply multifractals to the species‐area relationship …

Aim Land‐use change is a major threat to biodiversity globally. Roads cause direct mortality
and limitation of individual movements, which may isolate populations and affect their …

Infrastructures in natural areas are expanding rapidly worldwide. Consequently, roads,
power-lines, and wind-farms cause millions of fatalities across several animal groups. Assessing …

Islands harbour evolutionary and ecologically unique biota, which are currently disproportionately
threatened by a multitude of anthropogenic factors, including habitat loss, invasive …

Whether most species are rare or have some intermediate abundance is a long-standing
question in ecology. Here, we use more than one billion observations from the Global …

Linear infrastructures (eg roads, railways or power lines) promote a myriad of negative impacts
on wildlife around the world, of which direct mortality is the most visible one. When high …

Railway ecology is an emerging discipline. In this review, we focus on what is known today
regarding the impacts of railways on wildlife, and on the methods to identify, monitor, and …

Road mortality affects natural populations worldwide. Although the effects of road mortality
are often documented, studies assessing the impact of road mortality on the viability of the …