Unpaved roads in northern Florida may provide ecological corridors for scrub lizards in areas where timber harvest has interrupted the forest regrowth cycle.
“[The unpaved roads] are going to allow these lizards to persist in these mature stands managed for wood pulp,” said David Tevs, a PhD student at the University of Montana.
Tevs and his colleagues conducted a study published recently in Ecological Research, revealing that some ways humans change the environment can make up for the problems they cause…