At of the end of the conference, awards were given for best poster (first, second and third prize).
See the winning posters »
| Tuesday poster session 28 Oct 18:00-19:00 |
Policy and planning |
Chair: Lars Nilsson (SE);
Tony Sangwine (UK) |
Support and promotion of the local administrations to avoid the fragmentation caused by the routing of large communication infrastructures in the region of Girona |
Jaume Hidalgo i Colomer |
| An initiative to increase knowledge exchange and promote best practices between the stakeholders involved in transport and biodiversity issues |
Georgina Álvarez, Carme Rosell, Ferran Navàs |
| Initial steps in the design of compensation measures for habitat and landscape effects of road construction |
Ana Villarroya, Jordi Puig |
| Transalpine Transport Architects (TRANSITECTS) |
Mattias Wagner |
Road mortality and barrier impacts |
Chair: Antonio Mira (PT); Marco Dinetti (IT); Margurerite Trocmé Maillard (CH) |
| Can we use road-kill data set to enhance our knowledge about the spatial distribution of ungulate species? |
Víctor Javier Colino Rabanal, Salvador José Peris Álvarez, Miguel Lizana Avia |
| Risk and deterministic factors effecting bear train collisions along the Canadian Pacific Railroad |
Benjamin Dorsey |
| Roadkilling wildlife in southern Spanish oak woodlands |
Juan D. Delgado, Natalia Arroyo, Jorge Durán, Alexandra Rodríguez, Antonio Rosal, Valle Palenzuela, Jesús R. Sánchez |
| Wildlife mortality in Mediterranean coastal wetlands (east Spain) |
García Suikkanen, C.; Vera, P.; Hernández, C.; Gielen , E.; Benedito, V.; Rosell, C.; Navàs, F.: Carol, J.; Fernández Bou, M.; Romero de Tejada, S. |
| Optimization of sampling effort on species diversity and road-kills in southern Brazil |
García Suikkanen, C., Remolar, A.,Vera, P., Hernández, C., Gielen , E., Benedito, V. |
| Birds and highway: effects on species diversity and road-kills in southern Brazil |
Alex Bager, Clarissa Alves da Rosa, Gustavo Ferreira de Brito, Thálita de Resende Cardoso, Ana Carolina Maia, André Luis Pracucci Gomes dos Santos |
| Index ranking of priority sites for mitigation of wildlife road-kill |
Alex Bager, Clarissa Alves da Rosa |
| Effect of sampling effort on estimated richness of road-killed vertebrate wildlife |
Alex Bager, Clarissa Alves da Rosa |
| Road mortality of amphibians in western Ukraine (Lviv Province) |
Ostap Reshetylo, Taras Mykitchak |
| Roadkills and the dynamics of the faunal casualties in Battonya town (SE Hungary) |
András István Csathó, András János Csathó |
Disturbance, pollution and invasion |
Chair: Lisa Dolan (IE);
J-O Helldin (SE) |
| Effects of the construction of a high-speed railway on the distribution and home range of the stone martens (Martes foina) in Cuenca (Spain) |
Esther Juárez, Francisco J. García, MGS Colomer, Francisco Suárez |
| Impacts of a highway construction on great bustards threatened population: threshold distances and effects on population dynamics |
Aurora Torres, Carlos Palacín, Juan C. Alonso, Javier Seoane
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| Ecological considerations for the management of non-native invasive species during the maintenance and operation of national road schemes in Ireland |
Thompson, R., Dolan, L. M. J., Emmerson, M., Dauber, J., Stout, J., Whelan, P.M. |
| Space use by Brown bear (Ursus Arctos) in relation to noise during and after Egnatia highway construction activities in Pindos mountain range |
Alexios Giannakopoulos, Triantafyllos Akriotis, Yorgos Mertzanis, Athanassios Tragos, Konstantinos Godes, Vasilios Dalamagas, Nikolaos Karameros |
| Mortality and habitat fragmentation from wind farm development |
Joris Everaert |
Fauna passages and their efficacy |
Chair:
Miklós Puky (HU);
Edgar van der Grift (NL) |
| Quantifying the effects of wildlife crossing structures on the population viability of arboreal mammals |
Kylie Soanes, Rodney van der Ree |
| Factors influencing design, location and function of ecoducts |
Jan Pěnčík, Marek Foglar |
| Adjustable groundwater level on overpasses to benefit amphibians |
Anne Martine Kruidering |
| The usual approach to ecological bridges design and construction and its possible innovation |
Marek Foglar, Vladimir Kristek |
| Methods of accelerated design of ecological overbridges |
Marek Foglar, Vladimir Kristek |
| An overpass for amphibians - does it work? |
Edgar A. van der Grift, Fabrice Ottburg, Robbert Snep |
| Improving toad tunnel efficiency at Parassapuszta, Hungary: inappropriate design and construction could partly be counter-balanced by maintenance |
Miklós Puky, Timea Mechura, Dorottya Gémesi, Gergely Szövényi |
| Brown bear crossings along Egnatia Highway in Northern Greece |
Αlexios Giannakopoulos et al |
| Wednesday poster session 29 Oct 18:00-19:00 |
Fragmentation and landscape |
Chair:
Jochen Jaeger (CA);
Andreas Seiler (SE) |
| Habitat fragmentation due to transportation infrastructure: the state of the art in Italy |
Marco Dinetti |
| Modelling the effect of roads on Moor frog metapopulations |
Maj-Britt Pontoppidan, Gösta Nachman |
| Ecological impacts of transportation network on wildlife, key biodiversity areas and protected areas of Turkey |
Semiha Demirbaş Çağlayan, Özgün Emre, Nilgül Karadeniz, Eray Çağlayan |
| Roads and fragmentation of wild reindeer habitat in Norway: Consequences of the development of infrastructures for conservation |
Manuela Panzacchi, Bram Van Moorter, Roy Andersen, Tobias Falldorf, Olav Strand |
| Effects of the Transylvanian motorway on droving of livestock |
J-O Helldin, Ciprian Corpade |
Ecological networks and corridors as tools for defragmentation |
Chair: Ruben Huele et al (NL);
Marita Böttcher et al (DE) |
| Migration corridors for large mammals in the Czech Republic and their linkages to neighbouring states |
Hlaváč, V., Mináriková, T., Strnad, M., Anděl, P., Gorčicová, I., Andreas, M., Romportl, D. and Bláhová, A. |
| Habitat suitability models as a tool for designing wildlife corridors in the Czech Republic; synthesis of two different approaches |
Dušan Romportl, Eva Vávrová, Tomas Chuman, Michal Andreas, Luděk Bufka, Martin Strnad |
From Patchwork to Network.
Results peer exchange
De-Fragmentation inside ECONAT |
Hans Bekker |
Defragmentation approaches for existing transport networks |
Chair: Carme Rosell (ES);
Edgar van der Grift (NL) |
| Gap analysis in road permeability - towards a mitigation action plan for wildlife |
Andreas Seiler, Mattias Olsson, J-O Helldin, Mats Lindqvist, Anders Sjölund |
| Strategic solutions for defragmentation of a very dense area |
Anne Martine Kruidering |
Transport corridors as habitat |
Chair:
Peter Spooner (AUS);
Sofia Gylje (SE) |
| Roadside vegetation in Mediterranean wetlands: defragmentating or increasing mortality of birds? Management implications |
Vera, P. Remolar, A. García Suikkanen, C., Hernández, C., Gielen , E., Benedito, V. |
| Study on some insect groups on Hungarian highways in relation to climate changes |
Ferenc Kozár, Zsuzsanna Konczné Benedicty |
| Fragments of steppe vegetation in roadsides and railway verges in the Great Hungarian Plain |
András István Csathó
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| How contribute the service areas on Polish motorways to the diversity of flora and vegetation? |
Maria Wojterska |
Case studies: mitigation and monitoring |
Chair:
Anders Sjölund (SE);
J-O Helldin (SE) |
| Ecological highway development in the area of Piacenza, Cremona and Brescia |
Francesco Acerbi, Marcello Pilla |
| Long time monitoring of biodiversity on D4707 motorway |
Jaroslav Žák, Mojmír Foral, Jan Mayer, Jan Pěnčík, Marek Foglar, Radomír Bocek |
Species at risk in Ontario, Canada: habitat fragmentation,
a threat to survival |
Barbara Slezak |
| When fencing and translocation is the right measure to prevent road-related amphibian decline: mass migration of Lissotriton and Triturus newts at Lake Kapszeg |
Zoltán Blaskovits, Miklós Puky |
| Wetland creation and restoration near the Bothnia Line railroad – a pioneer project in ecological compensation for northern migrant birds |
Niklas Lindberg, Anders Enetjärn |
| Living in the road vicinity – unique habitat of Zamenis longissimus in the Ohře River Valley, the Czech Republic |
Musilová Radka, Janoušek Karel, Zavadil Vít |
| Effects of installing amphibian tunnels and amphibian fence on roads in Poland and Denmark. |
Lars Briggs |
Fences and Animal detection system |
Chair: Marcel Hujiser (USA);
Mattias Olsson (SE) |
| Monitoring the effect of a screen installed to mitigate the impact of a high speed railway on bats |
Carles Flaquer, Marc Fernández-Bou, Carme Rosell, Rosa María Mata, José Miguel Siller, Ruth García-Ràfols |
| Highway fencing and moose migrations in northern Sweden |
J-O Helldin, Andreas Seiler, Per Widén, Mattias Olsson, Owe Geibrink |
| Efficiency of odour repellents on free ranging red deer (Cervus elaphus) and roe deer (Capreolus capreolus): a field test |
Morten Elmeros, Jens K. Winbladh, Poul N. Andersen, Aksel Bo Madsen, Jens T. Christensen |
Trans European wildlife network |
Chair: Annette Spangenberg (DE); Djuro Huber (HR) |
| Patterns of mammals mortality on main roads in the Northwestern Poland |
Robert W. Mysłajek, Sabina Nowak |
| Migration corridors for large carnivores in the West Carpathians, Czech Republic – current threats and conservation activities |
Miroslav Kutal, Tomáš Krajča, Michal Bojda, Martin Janča |
