Twenty Years of Research, Do Animals Use Wildlife Crossings?
Twenty years of research, do animals use wildlife crossings? Supplementary abstracts Robert van Meeteren and Gerard Smit (ed.) Twenty years of research, do animals use wildlife crossings? Supplementary abstracts Robert van Meeteren and Gerard Smit (ed.) Report number: 15-205 Date of publication: October 27th, 2015 Photographs cover: Jeroen Brandjes, Dimitri Emond, Gerard Smit Van Meeteren, R. & G.F.J. Smit, 2015. Twenty years of research, do animals use wildlife crossings?. Bureau Waardenburg Report nr. 15-205 Bureau Waardenburg, Culemborg. Keywords: fauna, infrastructure, ecoducts, wildlife tunnels, wildlife crossings. © Bureau Waardenburg bv This report is produced at the request of the client mentioned above and is his property. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted and/or publicized in any form or by any means, electronic, electrical, chemical, mechanical, optical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission of the client mentioned above and Bureau Waardenburg bv, nor may it without such a permission be used for any other purpose than for which it has been produced. The Quality Management System of Bureau Waardenburg bv has been certified by CERTIKED according to ISO 9001:2008. 1 2 Preface During the last decennia several hundreds of wildlife crossings have been realised in the Netherlands by national, regional and local governments. These crossings cover a wide variety of measures facilitating the movements of animals over and under highways, regional and local roads, railways and waterways. Since 1994, we have carried out studies on the actual use of such defragmentation measures by animals. This includes underpasses as ledges and banks at waterways, fauna tunnels, stump walls and overpasses as ecoducts, green ways and a marten bridge.
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