Response Time of Wetland Biodiversity to Road Construction on Adjacent Lands

Conservation Biology - Tập 14 Số 1 - Trang 86-94 - 2000
Cameron Findlay1,2, Josée Bourdages2
1Institute for Research on Environment and Economy , University of Ottawa, 5 Calixa-Lavalée, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5, email [email protected]
2Ottawa-Carleton Institute of Biology , University of Ottawa, 30 Marie Curie, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5

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Abstract: Road construction may result in significant loss of biodiversity at both local and regional scales due to restricted movement between populations, increased mortality, habitat fragmentation and edge effects, invasion by exotic species, or increased human access to wildlife habitats, all of which are expected to increase local extinction rates or decrease local recolonization rates. Species loss is unlikely to occur immediately, however. Rather, populations of susceptible species are expected to decline gradually after road construction, with local extinction occurring sometime later. We document lags in wetland biodiversity loss in response to road construction by fitting regression models that express species richness of different taxa ( birds, mammals, plants, and herptiles) as a function of both current and historical road densities on adjacent lands. The proportion of variation in herptile and bird richness explained by road densities increased significantly when past densities were substituted for more current densities in multiple regression models. Moreover, for vascular plants, birds, and herptiles, there were significant negative effects of historical road densities when the most current densities were controlled statistically. Our results provide evidence that the full effects of road construction on wetland biodiversity may be undetectable in some taxa for decades. Such lags in response to changes in anthropogenic stress have important implications for land‐use planning and environmental impact assessment.

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Conservation Biology

Tập 14 Số 1

86-94

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