Global Map of Roadless Areas Reveals Roads Fragmenting Majority of Land (3 of 8) (IMAGE)

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Global Map of Roadless Areas Reveals Roads Fragmenting Majority of Land (3 of 8)

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A global map of the ecological value of roadless areas. The index values indicated in blue highlight areas that are especially large and well connected and/or notably rich in biodiversity. The red areas are completely roaded: covered by roads and 1 km buffers alongside either sides of the road. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Dec. 16, 2016, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by P.L. Ibisch at Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development in Eberswalde, Germany, and colleagues was titled, "A global map of roadless areas and their conservation status."

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P. Ibisch <i>et al., Science</i> (2016)

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