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Transport Infrastructure and Biodiversity Conservation: A collection of CEE Evidence Syntheses

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This collection in Environmental Evidence features evidence syntheses, conducted to CEE standards, covering human impacts or effectiveness of interventions between transport infrastructure and biodiversity conservation.

All manuscripts published in this collection met the journal’s standard editorial criteria for assessment, relevance, and peer review, and underwent the journal’s standard peer review process. They were handled by the journal Editors and Editor-in-Chief. 


  1. Linear transportation infrastructures (roads, railways, oil and gas pipelines, powerlines and waterways) generate well documented fragmenting effects on species habitats. However, the potential of verges of li...

    Authors: Dakis-Yaoba Ouédraogo, Anne Villemey, Sylvie Vanpeene, Aurélie Coulon, Vital Azambourg, Marine Hulard, Eric Guinard, Yves Bertheau, Frédérique Flamerie De Lachapelle, Vanessa Rauel, Eric Le Mitouard, Arzhvaël Jeusset, Marianne Vargac, Isabelle Witté, Hervé Jactel, Julien Touroult…
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2020 9:13
    Content type: Systematic Review Published on:

  2. With appropriate management, based on vegetation removal that reverses late-successional vegetation stages, roadsides can support high levels of biodiversity. However, current recommendations for roadside mana...

    Authors: Simon Jakobsson, Claes Bernes, James M. Bullock, Kris Verheyen and Regina Lindborg
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2018 7:17
    Content type: Systematic Review Published on:

    The Systematic Review Protocol to this article has been published in Environmental Evidence 2017 6:16

  3. The role of linear transportation infrastructures (roads, railways, oil and gas pipelines, power lines, rivers and canals) in fragmenting natural habitats is fully acknowledged. Up to now, the potential of lin...

    Authors: Anne Villemey, Arzhvaël Jeusset, Marianne Vargac, Yves Bertheau, Aurélie Coulon, Julien Touroult, Sylvie Vanpeene, Bastien Castagneyrol, Hervé Jactel, Isabelle Witte, Nadine Deniaud, Frédérique Flamerie De Lachapelle, Emmanuel Jaslier, Véronique Roy, Eric Guinard, Eric Le Mitouard…
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2018 7:5
    Content type: Systematic Review Published on:

    The Systematic Review Protocol to this article has been published in Environmental Evidence 2016 5:5

  4. In many parts of the world, roadsides are regularly managed for traffic-safety reasons. Hence, there are similarities between roadsides and certain other managed habitats, such as wooded pastures and mown or g...

    Authors: Claes Bernes, James M. Bullock, Simon Jakobsson, Maj Rundlöf, Kris Verheyen and Regina Lindborg
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2017 6:24
    Content type: Systematic Map Published on:

    The Systematic Map Protocol to this article has been published in Environmental Evidence 2016 5:4