Large herbivores occur around the world and are often in conflict with roads and vehicles. Large herbivores are plant eaters and are generally hooved (e.g. deer, moose, elephant and buffalo) but also include kangaroos. All play important roles in ecosystem functioning. These are the animals typically involved in most reported wildlife‐vehicle collisions (WVC), which have significant costs to human society and wildlife populations. It is important that transportation planners seek to avoid, minimise or mitigate these collisions in order to protect motorists and large herbivore populations.

    Large herbivores need connectivity across the landscape because restriction of their movements by roads and vehicles will impact wildlife populations, ecosystems and humans.

    Wildlife‐vehicle collisions often involve large herbivores and cause large‐scale costs to human societies; documenting WVC and their costs is the first step in preventing them.

    Mitigating vehicle and road effects on large herbivores requires long‐term transportation planning.

    The type and size of wildlife crossing structures for large herbivores can be partly based on the North American and European experiences.

    The placement of wildlife crossing structures for large herbivores should be based on animal size, their movement patterns and transportation constraints.

    Additional mitigation measures include driver warning systems and vegetation management.

    It is important to consider large herbivores when planning and managing road networks because of their need for frequent and often large‐scale movements, their large size which makes WVC dangerous to motorists and their important role in ecosystem function.


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    Titel :

    Transportation and Large Herbivores


    Beteiligte:
    van der Ree, Rodney (Herausgeber:in) / Smith, Daniel J. (Herausgeber:in) / Grilo, Clara (Herausgeber:in) / Cramer, Patricia (Autor:in) / Olsson, Mattias (Autor:in) / Gadd, Michelle E. (Autor:in) / van der Ree, Rodney (Autor:in) / Sielecki, Leonard E. (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2015-04-01


    Format / Umfang :

    9 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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