Road mortality is a significant threat to amphibian and reptile populations. Here is a list of useful resources compiled by R. Carter and J. Andrews back in 2007. There are now many more articles and sites available, but these can get you started.
Internet Resources
Government Sites
US Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration
Critter Crossings: Linking Habitats and Reducing Roadkills
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/00marapr/critters.cfm
Keeping it Simple: Easy Ways to Help Wildlife Along Roads
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/wildlife_protection/index.cfm
Wildlife Habitat Connectivity Across European Highways
https://international.fhwa.dot.gov/Pdfs/wildlife_web.pdf
US Geological Survey
Paynes Prairie Ecopassage Project
http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Fall03/Ede/eco.htm
US Fish and Wildlife Service
Refuge Roads Progam : Ecology and Biology Online Resources
http://www.fws.gov/refuges/roads/road_ecol_biol.html
Other Organizations
Habitat and Highways Campaign
http://www.defenders.org/press-release/defenders-launches-habitat-highways-campaign
International Conference on Ecology and Transportation: useful links
http://www.icoet.net/links.asp
Natural Resource Defense Council. The End of the Road: Adverse Ecological Impacts of Roads and Logging: Bibliography
ftp://ftp.odot.state.or.us/techserv/…
World Bank: Roads and the Environment Handbook: Table of Contents
http://go.worldbank.org/HNIS6V3L10
PDF version (252pp, 18 Mb)
Articles
eScholarship Repository: Evaluation of a Wildlife Underpass on Vermont State Highways 289 in Essex, Vermont
http://repositories.cdlib.org/jmie/roadeco/Austin2001a/
Parks Canada Agency: Trans-Canada Highway Twinning:
10 quick facts about highway wildlife crossings in the park
https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/pn-np/ab/banff/info/gestion-management/enviro/transport/tch-rtc/passages-crossings/faq/10
Evink, G. 2002. National Cooperative Highway Research Program Synthesis 305, Interaction between roadways and wildlife ecology, a synthesis of highway practice. Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C. 78 pp. Impacts of roads on herptiles and some conservation strategies. A big problem, good information. Order at 202-334-3213 or download from http://trb.org/publications/nchrp/nchrp_syn_305.pdf (5.1 MB PDF).
Journal Articles and Texts
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