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  • Ecology
  • Conservation Biology
  • Wildlife Management

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  • Roads cause habitat loss, fragmentation, mortality, and pollution, impacting wildlife.
  • The effects of roads on interspecific interactions remain poorly understood.
  • Understanding these disruptions is crucial for effective conservation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To synthesize existing literature on how roads affect species interactions.
  • To identify knowledge gaps in road ecology research.
  • To propose future research and conservation management strategies.

Main Methods:

  • Systematic literature search of the Web of Science database.
  • Focused on six types of species interactions: predation, competition, mutualism, parasitism, commensalism, and amensalism.
  • Analyzed 195 relevant articles, noting study focus and geographic bias.

Main Results:

  • Roads disrupt predator-prey dynamics, often negatively impacting prey.
  • Disturbed road corridors can favor competitive and invasive species.
  • Mutualistic interactions like pollination and seed dispersal are degraded.
  • Roads can increase parasitism rates, varying by species.

Conclusions:

  • Roads significantly alter critical interspecific interactions, with broad ecological consequences.
  • Management actions like wider verges, varied mowing, reduced salt use, grouped wildlife passes, carcass removal, and traffic calming are recommended.
  • Addressing road impacts on species interactions is vital for biodiversity conservation.