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Negative Impact of Motorway Construction on the Biological and Landscape Diversity

Apart from undoubtedly positive effects, the construction of motorways unfortunately brings along negative impacts as well, including the major one influencing the natural system of the region through which it passes. As such, a motorway represents a source of continuous emissions of various pollutants, causes permanent physical changes to the landscape and disturbs the natural conditions of the plant and animal communities. Therefore, in order to understand properly and integrally all the processes in the natural system, it is necessary, among other things, to analyse the impact of motorway construction on the landscape and biological diversity. The threat to the plant and animal natural habitats is expressed through four basic types of impact whose analysis results in a bio-ecological and landscape evaluation of a certain route with the aim of selecting the most acceptable one out of a set of variant solutions.

motorway construction; natural habitats; environmental protection; evaluation of negative impact

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