Changes in behavioural responses to infrastructure affect local and regional connectivity – a simulation study on pond breeding amphibians

An extensive and expanding infrastructural network destroys and fragments natural habitat and has detrimental effect on abundance and population viability of many amphibian species. Roads function as barriers in the landscape. They separate local populations from each other or prevent access to nece...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Maj-Britt Pontoppidan, Gösta Nachman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2013-11-01
Series:Nature Conservation
Online Access:http://natureconservation.pensoft.net/lib/ajax_srv/article_elements_srv.php?action=download_pdf&item_id=1347