Minor rural road networks: values, challenges, and opportunities for biodiversity conservation

Peter G. Spooner

doi:10.3897/natureconservation.11.4434

Daniel C. Hale, Anita T. Morzillo (2020)
Landscape characteristics and social factors influencing attitudes toward roadside vegetation management. Landscape Ecology 35: 2029.

DOI: 10.1007/s10980-020-01078-6

Jacob Cabral, Anita T. Morzillo, Ran Xu (2024)
A Stakeholder Network for Managing Multiple Forest Stressors and Roadside Forests. Society & Natural Resources 37: 170.

DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2023.2267500

Amie Wuchter, Katherine J. Kling, Aro Andrianina Herizo Andriamanalina, Alpin Ramiarison, Delaïd Claudin Rasamisoa, Timothy M. Eppley, Cortni Borgerson (2026)
The Effects of Road Use on Livelihoods and Protected Area Natural Resource Collection in Northeastern Madagascar. Human Ecology 54: .

DOI: 10.1007/s10745-026-00717-x

Weixin Zhai, Xiya Xiong, Guozhao Mo, Yuzhen Xiao, Caicong Wu, Zhi Xu, Jiawen Pan (2024)
A Bagging-SVM field-road trajectory classification model based on feature enhancement. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 217: 108635.

DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2024.108635

Weixin Zhai, Guozhao Mo, Yuzhen Xiao, Xiya Xiong, Caicong Wu, Xiaoqiang Zhang, Zhi Xu, Jiawen Pan (2024)
GAN-BiLSTM network for field-road classification on imbalanced GNSS recordings. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 216: 108457.

DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2023.108457

Paul Gibson‐Roy, Frank Carland (2022)
Restored roadside grasslands provide an exciting template for road network conservation. Ecological Management & Restoration 23: 271.

DOI: 10.1111/emr.12571

Meike Buhaly, Sophia Carmel Turner, Noemi Katalin Kreuz, Vigdis Vandvik, Benedikt Veltmann, Jake M. Alexander, Jonas J. Lembrechts, Ivan Nijs, Maria Alisa Alvarez, José Ramón Arévalo, Valeria Aschero, Joshua P. Averett, Agustina Barros, Pablo Castro Sánchez‐Bermejo, Lohengrin A. Cavieres, Vincent Ralph Clark, Curtis C. Daehler, Pervaiz A. Dar, Franz Essl, Georg V. Flückiger, Eduardo Fuentes‐Lillo, Casey Gibson, Christian Larson, Keith McDougall, Martin A. Nuñez, Aníbal Pauchard, Stephanie Payne, Tobias Proß, Petr Pyšek, Irfan Rashid, Amanda Ratier Backes, Zafar A. Reshi, Lisa J. Rew, Tim Seipel, Sandy‐Lynn Steenhuisen, Michaela Vítková, Genevieve Wright, Shengwei Zong, Sylvia Haider (2026)
No Signal of Biotic Resistance to Non‐Native Species Establishment in High‐Elevation Communities. Journal of Vegetation Science 37: .

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Jan Thiele, Jens Schirmel, Sascha Buchholz, Petr Heneberg (2018)
Effectiveness of corridors varies among phytosociological plant groups and dispersal syndromes. PLOS ONE 13: e0199980.

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Adrián Lázaro-Lobo, Gary N. Ervin (2019)
A global examination on the differential impacts of roadsides on native vs. exotic and weedy plant species. Global Ecology and Conservation 17: e00555.

DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2019.e00555

Jacob Cabral, Anita T. Morzillo, Ran Xu (2023)
Forest stressors and roadside vegetation management in an exurban landscape. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 85: 127954.

DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2023.127954

Zsofia Palfi, Peter G. Spooner, Wayne Robinson (2017)
Soil disturbance effects on the composition of seed-dispersing ants in roadside environments. Oecologia 183: 493.

DOI: 10.1007/s00442-016-3767-2

Kristine Nemec, Andrew Stephenson, Mary Losch (2022)
How Engineers and Roadside Vegetation Managers Maintain Roadside Vegetation in Iowa, USA. Environmental Management 70: 593.

DOI: 10.1007/s00267-022-01683-y

Andreas Seiler, Jan-Olof Helldin (2015)
Greener transport infrastructure – IENE 2014 International Conference. Nature Conservation 11: 5.

DOI: 10.3897/natureconservation.11.5458

Timothy R New, Don P A Sands, Gary S Taylor (2021)
Roles of roadside vegetation in insect conservation in Australia. Austral Entomology 60: 128.

DOI: 10.1111/aen.12511

Zsofia Palfi, Peter G. Spooner, Wayne Robinson (2017)
Seed Dispersal Distances by Ants Increase in Response to Anthropogenic Disturbances in Australian Roadside Environments. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 5: .

DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00132

Ana Reyes-Hernández, Ileana Herrera, Anahí Vargas, Nora H. Oleas, Josue Alvarez, Jordi López-Pujol (2026)
Invasion Status, Distribution, and Environmental Preferences of Non-Native Ornamental Thunbergia Species (Acanthaceae) in Ecuador: An Emerging Threat to Tropical Montane Forests. Forests 17: 363.

DOI: 10.3390/f17030363

Benjamin J. Barth, Sean I. FitzGibbon, Amber Gillett, Robbie S. Wilson, Beth Moffitt, Geoffrey W. Pye, Dalene Adam, Harriet Preece, William A. Ellis (2020)
Scattered paddock trees and roadside vegetation can provide important habitat for koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) in an agricultural landscape. Australian Mammalogy 42: 194.

DOI: 10.1071/AM18031

Weixin Zhai, Haoxin Guo, Jiawen Pan, Caicong Wu (2026)
An automatic parameter search framework for agricultural machinery trajectory operation mode identification by deeply weakly informed deep reinforcement learning. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 253: 112172.

DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2026.112172

Jana Moravcová, Tomáš Pavlíček, Vendula Moravcová, Václav Bystřický, Pavel Ondr (2025)
Do land consolidations contribute to better landscape accessibility through rural roads? - Case study South Bohemia Region (Czech Republic). Sustainable Futures 10: 101431.

DOI: 10.1016/j.sftr.2025.101431

Weixin Zhai, Le Chen, Jinming Liu, Zhou Guo, Qian Qian, Jiawen Pan, Caicong Wu, Xiangzeng Kong (2026)
Dual-domain Context-aware network in time series classification for identifying agricultural machinery trajectory operation mode. Smart Agricultural Technology 13: 101774.

DOI: 10.1016/j.atech.2025.101774

Weixin Zhai, Zhuoyue He, Jinming Liu, Jiawen Pan, Caicong Wu (2026)
DCST-Encoder: A dual-context encoder with spatiotemporal feature enhancement for identifying agricultural machinery trajectory operation modes in multivariate time series. Information Processing in Agriculture : .

DOI: 10.1016/j.inpa.2026.02.004

Kristine Nemec, Andrew Stephenson, Eva Aizpurua Gonzalez, Mary Losch (2021)
Local Decision-makers’ Perspectives on Roadside Revegetation and Management in Iowa, USA. Environmental Management 67: 1060.

DOI: 10.1007/s00267-021-01448-z

Ian Philips, Llinos Brown, Noel Cass (2024)
E-bike use and ownership in the Lake District National-Park UK. Journal of Transport Geography 115: 103813.

DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2024.103813

Z. Palfi, W. Robinson, P. G. Spooner (2020)
Cheaters and removalists: the influence of soil disturbance on ant–seed interactions in roadside vegetation. Insectes Sociaux 67: 429.

DOI: 10.1007/s00040-020-00778-1

Weixin Zhai, Xinyu Zhang, Jinming Liu, Jiawen Pan, Caicong Wu (2025)
A dual-level interactive cascade network for agricultural machinery trajectory operation mode identification. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 238: 110788.

DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2025.110788

Andreas Seiler, Manisha Bhardwaj (2020)
Problematic Wildlife II. Chapter 6: 171.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-42335-3_6