Contents
Part I Review
1 Railway Ecology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Luís Borda-de-Água, Rafael Barrientos, Pedro Beja
and Henrique M. Pereira
2 Current Knowledge on Wildlife Mortality in Railways . . . . . . . . . . 11
Sara M. Santos, Filipe Carvalho and António Mira
3 Methods to Monitor and Mitigate Wildlife
Mortality in Railways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Filipe Carvalho, Sara M. Santos, António Mira and Rui Lourenço
4 Railways as Barriers for Wildlife: Current Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . 43
Rafael Barrientos and Luís Borda-de-Água
5 Aliens on the Move: Transportation Networks
and Non-native Species . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Fernando Ascensão and César Capinha
6 Railway Disturbances on Wildlife: Types,
Effects, and Mitigation Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Priscila Silva Lucas, Ramon Gomes de Carvalho and Clara Grilo
Part II Case Studies
7 Bird Collisions in a Railway Crossing a Wetland
of International Importance (Sado Estuary, Portugal) . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Carlos Godinho, João T. Marques, Pedro Salgueiro, Luísa Catarino,
Cândida Osório de Castro, António Mira and Pedro Beja
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