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    • 2 Users’ Guide
    • 3 Effects of Infrastructure on Nature
      • 3.1 Defining habitat fragmentation
      • 3.2 Ecological effects of transport infrastructure
      • 3.3 Primary ecological effects
      • 3.4 Secondary ecological effects
      • 3.5 Landscape ecology perspectives
    • 4 Developing Integrated Solutions
      • 4.1 Countering the threat of habitat fragmentation
      • 4.2 The importance of early consideration of habitat fragmentation
      • 4.3 Integrated solutions
    • 5 Planning Tools
      • 5.1 Planning to avoid and reduce fragmentation
      • 5.2 At the strategic planning phase (SEA)
      • 5.3 At the project planning phase (EIA)
      • 5.4 Fragmentation impact assessment of the new infrastructure and EIA
      • 5.5 Existing structures
      • 5.6 Upgrading roads and railways
      • 5.7 Costs and benefits
      • 5.8 Recommendations
    • 6 Integration of Infrastructure into Landscape
      • 6.1 Introduction
      • 6.2 Alignment
      • 6.3 Earthworks: cuttings and embankments
      • 6.4 Design solutions
      • 6.5 Conclusions
    • 7 Fauna Passages and other solutions
      • 7.1 General approach
      • 7.2 Reducing the barrier effect: overpasses
      • 7.3 Reducing the barrier effect: underpasses
      • 7.4 Avoiding and reducing animal mortality
      • 7.5 Reducing the barrier effect and mortality: other measures
    • 8 Ecological Compensation
      • 8.1 The concept of ecological compensation
      • 8.2 Legal obligations
      • 8.3 Achieving ecological compensation in infrastructure projects
      • 8.4 Mitigation banking
    • 9 Monitoring and Evaluation
      • 9.1 General principles of monitoring
      • 9.2 Designing a monitoring programme
      • 9.3 Quality control during the construction phase
      • 9.4 Methods for monitoring fauna casualties and the use of fauna passages
    • 10 Maintenance
      • 10.1 Introduction
      • 10.2 Developing an adaptive ecological asset maintenance plan
      • 10.3. Maintenance requirements for ecological asset and wildlife management
      • 10.4 Maintenance tasks sheets
    • Annex 1. Glossary
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Wildlife & Traffic

A European Handbook for Identifying Conflicts and Designing Solutions

10 Maintenance of ecological assets on transport linear infrastructure
New chapter (2020). In cooperation with CEDR Transnational Road Research Program ‘Roads and Wildlife’

Contents

  • 10.4 Maintenance tasks sheets
    • Maintenance of fencing: meshes and poles
    • Maintenance of fencing: escape devices
    • Maintenance of cattle grids
    • Maintenance of screens installed to reduce disturbances
    • Maintenance of amphibian/small fauna fences
    • Maintenance of ecoducts, wildlife and multiuse overpasses
    • Maintenance of viaducts, wildlife and multiuse underpasses
    • Maintenance of modified culverts
    • Maintenance of amphibian tunnels
    • Maintenance of wildlife awareness signs
    • Maintenance of signs activated by Animal Detection Systems (ADS)
    • Management of vegetation
    • Management of habitats for pollinators and other small fauna
    • Control of Invasive Alien Species (IAS)
    • Management of verges to reduce forest fire risk in sensitive areas
    • Management of retention ponds to wildlife
    • Management of road killed animals
    • Management of Animal-Vehicle Collisions (AVC) data
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Wildlife & Traffic

  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Users’ Guide
  • 3 Effects of Infrastructure on Nature
  • 4 Developing Integrated Solutions
  • 5 Planning Tools
  • 6 Integration of Infrastructure into Landscape
  • 7 Fauna Passages and other solutions
  • 8 Ecological Compensation
  • 9 Monitoring and Evaluation
  • 10 Maintenance
  • Annex 1. Glossary
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