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To synthesize existing evidence regarding how road infrastructure alters biodiversity patterns, ecological interactions, and evolutionary processes within semi-arid environments.

May 19, 2019DiversityOpen Access

A Review of the Impacts of Roads on Wildlife in Semi-Arid Regions

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WDW. R. J. DeanUniversity of Cape Town CSColleen L. SeymourThompson Rivers University GJGrant S. JosephUniversity of Cape Town

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Literature review reveals multi-trophic mortality and rapid genetic isolation in semi-arid wildlife from roads, highlighting the need for tailored conservation mitigation.

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To synthesize existing evidence regarding how road infrastructure alters biodiversity patterns, ecological interactions, and evolutionary processes within semi-arid environments.
Comprehensive literature review assessing published studies on wildlife-road interactions in arid and semi-arid landscapes.
Synthesis of physiological, acoustic, behavioral, and genetic impacts across diverse taxonomic groups alongside an evaluation of current mitigation techniques.
Direct vehicle collisions cause widespread mortality across trophic levels, notably endangering scavengers drawn to carcasses and predators attracted by invertebrates concentrated near streetlights.
Chronic traffic noise pollution induces behavioral shifts, compelling birds and frogs to increase call amplitude or pitch to overcome vocal masking.
Road networks create functional movement barriers that drive rapid reductions in genetic diversity within isolated populations, posing heightened extinction risks for rare semi-arid species.

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Dean et al. (2019) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aa90634f031ab46a4d2a3a3 https://doi.org/10.3390/d11050081

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Literature review reveals multi-trophic mortality and rapid genetic isolation in semi-arid wildlife from roads, highlighting the need for tailored conservation mitigation.

A Review of the Impacts of Roads on Wildlife in Semi-Arid Regions

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