Journal article
Border security fencing and wildlife: the end of the transboundary paradigm in Eurasia?
- Abstract:
- The ongoing refugee crisis in Europe has seen many countries rush to construct border security fencing to divert or control the flow of people. This follows a trend of border fence construction across Eurasia during the post 9/11 era. This development has gone largely unnoticed by conservation biologists during an era where ironically, transboundary cooperation has emerged as a conservation paradigm. These fences represent a major threat to wildlife because they can cause mortality, obstruct access to seasonally important resources, and reduce effective population size. We summarise the extent of the issue and propose concrete mitigation measures.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
Actions
Access Document
- Files:
-
-
(Preview, Version of record, pdf, 2.8MB, Terms of use)
-
- Publisher copy:
- 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002483
Authors
- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science
- Journal:
- PLoS Biology More from this journal
- Publication date:
- 2016-06-22
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-04-20
- DOI:
- EISSN:
-
1545-7885
- ISSN:
-
1544-9173
- Pubs id:
-
pubs:628489
- UUID:
-
uuid:c9b9689e-bd6b-41a8-b9c4-a8218c3dc0a2
- Local pid:
-
pubs:628489
- Source identifiers:
-
628489
- Deposit date:
-
2016-06-17
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Linnell et al
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- © 2016 Linnell et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
If you are the owner of this record, you can report an update to it here: Report update to this record