Construction and preliminary monitoring results of the first ACO Wildlife Pro amphibian mitigation systems on roads in Hungary
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Published source details
Faggyas S. & Puky M. (2012) Az ACO Wildlife Pro kétéltűátjáró-rendszer első magyarországi alkalmazásának kivitelezési tapasztalatai és a monitorozás első eredményei . Állattani Közlemények, 97, 85–93.
Published source details Faggyas S. & Puky M. (2012) Az ACO Wildlife Pro kétéltűátjáró-rendszer első magyarországi alkalmazásának kivitelezési tapasztalatai és a monitorozás első eredményei . Állattani Közlemények, 97, 85–93.
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This study is summarised as evidence for the following.
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Install culverts or tunnels as road crossings Action Link |
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Install culverts or tunnels as road crossings
A replicated study in 2011–2012 of 26 wildlife tunnels with guide walls at three wetland sites on the Great Hungarian Plain, Hungary (Faggyas & Puky 2012) found that amphibians used the tunnels in large numbers in the first year. Between 120 and 1,800 amphibians were caught at the end of each tunnel over two weeks. European fire-bellied toads Bombina bombina and the targeted spadefoot toad Pelobates fuscus were recorded in highest numbers. The Danube crested newt Triturus dobrogicus, a priority conservation species, also used the tunnels. At one site, ten times more amphibians passed through two new climate tunnels than an existing adjacent concrete culvert. A total of 26 polymer concrete ACO Wildlife Pro climate tunnels, guide walls (300–600 m/tunnel) and stop channels (under side roads that bisected guide walls) were constructed under three roads in autumn 2011. Amphibians were monitored using nine pitfall traps/road in April 2012.
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