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| Thorne, James H; Information Center for the Environment, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis; jhthorne@ucdavis.edu; Huber, Patrick R; Information Center for the Environment, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis; prhuber@ucdavis.edu; Girvetz, Evan H; College of Forest Resources, University of Washington; girvetz@u.washington.edu; Quinn, Jim; Information Center for the Environment, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis; jfquinn@ucdavis.edu; McCoy, Michael C; Information Center for the Environment, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis; mcmccoy@ucdavis.edu. |
| Government agencies that develop infrastructure such as roads, waterworks, and energy delivery often impact natural ecosystems, but they also have unique opportunities to contribute to the conservation of regional natural resources through compensatory mitigation. Infrastructure development requires a planning, funding, and implementation cycle that can frequently take a decade or longer, but biological mitigation is often planned and implemented late in this process, in a project-by-project piecemeal manner. By adopting early regional mitigation needs assessment and planning for habitat-level impacts from multiple infrastructure projects, agencies could secure time needed to proactively integrate these obligations into regional conservation objectives.... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: California; Conservation planning; Greenprint; MARXAN; Regional mitigation assessment; Transportation planning. |
| Ano: 2009 |
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| van Langevelde, Frank; Resource Ecology Group, Wageningen University; frank.vanlangevelde@wur.nl; Jaarsma, Catharinus F.; Land Use Planning Group, Wageningen University; rinus.jaarsma@wur.nl. |
| A steady growth in traffic volumes in industrialized countries with dense human populations is expected, especially on minor roads. As a consequence, the fragmentation of wildlife populations will increase dramatically. In human-dominated landscapes, typically minor roads occur in high densities, and animals encounter them frequently. Traffic calming is a new approach to mitigate negative impacts by reducing traffic volumes and speeds on minor roads at a regional scale. This leads to a distinction between roads with low volumes as being part of the traffic-calmed area, whereas roads with bundled traffic are located around this area. Within the traffic-calmed area, volumes and speeds can be decreased substantially; this is predicted to decrease the... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Habitat fragmentation; Metapopulation theory; Mitigation; Road ecology; Traffic calming; Transportation planning. |
| Ano: 2009 |
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