Roads and traffic impact wildlife in a variety of ways. In some animal populations, they enhance mortality, limit mobility, fragment populations, and decrease habitat amount and quality, rsulting in a limitation on food, shelter, and space availability, all fundamental to species' survival. Those impacts and associated mitigations are becoming a major focus of research in conservation, namely in significant and energing fields such as landscape and road ecology.

C. Grilo was supported by a Post-Doc grant (SFRH / BPD / 64205 / 2009) from the Fundaçâo para a Ciência e a Tecnologia.

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