The growing human footprint has placed unprecedented stressors on ecosystems in recent
decades resulting in losses of biodiversity and ecosystem function around the world. Roads …

Unpaved forest roads remain a pervasive disturbance on public lands and mitigating
sediment from road networks remains a priority for management agencies. Restoring roaded …

In forested mountainous areas, the road location and characterization are invaluable inputs
for various purposes such as forest management, wood harvesting industry, wildfire …

We present the first community‐level study of the associations of both roads and other
human disturbances with the distribution of mammals in Gabon (central Africa). Our study …

Accurate information about forestry roads is a key aspect of forest management in terms of
economy (eg accessibility, cost, optimal path) and ecology (eg wildfire and wildlife …

Forest road stream crossing approaches, or the section of road immediately adjacent to the
stream crossing, represent primary sources and nearly direct pathways for sediment delivery …

Highway construction is time consuming and complicated. Various environmental issues
can be encountered during this process. Therefore, it is necessary to assess the impact of …

The commonly expressed goal of biodiversity offsets is to achieve no net loss of specific
biological features affected by development. However, strict equivalency requirements may …

Degradation of forest roads in Canada has strong negative effects on access to forestlands,
together with economic (eg, increased maintenance costs), environmental (eg, erosion of …

There is increasing concern about insufficient consideration of potential ecological effects of
roads in project‐specific environmental impact assessment (EIA) and other, more advanced …