Railway Ecology

• Autor principal: Rafael Barrientos (auth)
• Outros Autores: Pedro Beja (auth), Luís Borda-de-Água (auth), Henrique Miguel Pereira (auth)
• Formato: Recurso Eletrônico Capítulo de Livro
• Idioma: inglês
• Publicado em: Springer Nature 2017
• Assuntos: planning; carbon footprint; efficiency; biodiversity; environmental impacts of railways; engineering; animal casualties on rails; sustainability; landscape; transportation; wildlife
• Acesso em linha: 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...