Halting Construction
Disturbances should be minimized during strategic stages of the life cycle of the
target species, as when construction of the railway was halted to allow the migration
of the Tibetan antelopes in China (Xia et al. 2007) or the reproduction of wetland
birds in Portugal (see Chap. 12).
Fig. 4.1 Ideal protocol for mitigating railway barrier effects
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Disturbances should be minimized during strategic stages of the life cycle of the
target species, as when construction of the railway was halted to allow the migration
of the Tibetan antelopes in China (Xia et al. 2007) or the reproduction of wetland
birds in Portugal (see Chap. 12).
Fig. 4.1 Ideal protocol for mitigating railway barrier effects
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