Railway Ecology

• Главный автор: Rafael Barrientos (auth)
• Другие авторы: Pedro Beja (auth), Luís Borda-de-Água (auth), Henrique Miguel Pereira (auth)
• Формат: Электронный ресурс Глава книги
• Язык: английский
• Опубликовано: Springer Nature 2017
• Предметы: planning; carbon footprint; efficiency; biodiversity; environmental impacts of railways; engineering; animal casualties on rails; sustainability; landscape; transportation; wildlife
• Online-ссылка: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This book provides a unique overview of the impacts of railways on biodiversity, integrating the existing knowledge on the ecological effects of railways on wildlife, identifying major knowledge gaps and research directions and presenting the emerging field of railway ecology. The book is divided in...