The Effect of Linear Infrastructures on Habitat Fragmentation
European Co-operation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research COST 341 The effect of linear infrastructures on habitat fragmentation Hungarian State of the Art Report European Commission Directorate General Transport Commissioned by the Technical and Information Services on National Roads (ÁKMI) Compiled by the Environmental Management Institute on the basis of co-operation between the National Authority for Nature Conservation of the Ministry for Environment and of the Ministry for Transport, Communications and Water Management Compiled from the materials of the following authors: Botond Bakó Ferenc Németh Attila Bankovics Orsolya Pallag Dénes Bartha Attila Pellinger Tamás Berg Miklós Puky András Bidló László Pásztor Attila Csemez Tibor Seregélyes Sándor Faragó Ágnes Simonyi Gábor Kovács Hortenzia Szombathy András Kun Gábor Takács Viktor Mártha Tibor Tóth Ottó Merkl Katalin Török Zsolt Molnár Editor: Orsolya Pallag Project manager: Ágnes Simonyi Project co-ordinator: Angéla Kovács Photo credits: Zoltán Alexay, Péter Farkas, Geleta & Geleta, Zsolt Kalotás, Tibor Seregélyes, Hortenzia Szombathy, József Zsidákovits Consultants on behalf of the for National Authority for Nature Conservation of the Ministry for Environment: András Demeter, Gábor Duhay, Rozália Szekeres, Ödön Ráday Revised by Tibor Seregélyes Translated by Réka Aszalós, Réka Könczey and Gabriella Pászty Published by Technical and Information Services on National Roads (ÁKMI), Budapest, Hungary June, 2000 Type-set Pars Ltd., Budapest Table of Contents Chapter 1. Introduction .....................5 Objectives of the IENE programme................5 General information about COST 341 ...............6 Chapter 2. Ecological concepts ...................7 2.1. Introduction ...........................7 2.2. Ecological networks .........................7 2.3. Habitat fragmentation ........................8 2.4. Summary .......................10 Chapter 3. Effects of infrastructure on nature ..............11 3.1.
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