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Title Railway ecology / Luís Borda-de-Água, Rafael Barrientos, Pedro Beja, Henrique Miguel Pereira, editors.

Publication Info. Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource (xxx, 320 pages) : illustrations (some color)
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Note Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 4, 2017).
Summary This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. 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 into two major parts: Part one offers a general review of the major conceptual and theoretical principles of railway ecology. The chapters consider the impacts of railways on wildlife populations and concentrate on four major topics: mortality, barrier effects, species invasions and disturbances (ranging from noise to chemical pollution). Part two focuses on a number of case studies from Europe, Asia and North America written by an international group of experts.
Contents Part 1.- Introduction -- 1. Railway Ecology -- 2. Wildlife Mortality in Railways -- 3. Railways as Barriers for Wildlife: Current Knowledge and Future Steps -- Part 2. Introduction -- Case Studies -- Conclusions -- What's Next? Railway Ecology in the 21st Century.
Local Note SpringerLink Springer Nature Open Access eBooks
Subject Ecology.
Railroads -- Environmental aspects.
Ecological science, the Biosphere.
Ecology. (OCoLC)fst00901476
Railroads -- Environmental aspects. (OCoLC)fst01088941
Added Author Borda-de-Água, Luís, editor.
Barrientos, Rafael, editor.
Beja, Pedro, editor.
Pereira, Henrique M., editor.
Other Form: Printed edition: 9783319574950
ISBN 9783319574967 (electronic book)
3319574965 (electronic book)
9783319574950 (print)
Standard No. 10.1007/978-3-319-57496-7 doi
ISBN 3319574957
9783319574950
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