Recent Wildland Road Scientific Research Reviews

The construction, presence, and use of wildland roads are some of the leading causes of biodiversity loss across the globe.  Tens of thousands of research studies and papers have documented these impacts; and each year, hundreds of new papers are added to this growing body of literature.  Luckily, there are several recent literature reviews that have summarized research on the impacts of roads.  Also, Wildlands CPR continues to maintain and update a searchable annotated bibliographic database of over 20,000 citations documenting the physical and ecological effects of roads and off-road vehicles, and each quarter we summarize the research of one topic into a “BiblioNotes.”   Below is a chronological listing of recent scientific reviews of the literature, summaries of each document, and links to the full document when available.