Boutique des Sciences > Projects > 2014-2015
Measuring the functionality of biological corridors
Ever increasing transport infrastructures in France result in continual territorial segmentation, which in turn affects the movement corridors of animals. The Gier Valley is crisscrossed by multiple transport lines: the RD488 secondary road, the A47 motorway and railway lines. The A47 dates from the second half of the 20th century, and no compensatory measure to allow for the free movement of fauna was considered at the time. The Gier Valley is located in the centre of an ecological corridor lying between the Pilat Massif and the Côteaux du Lyonnais. Within the framework of a “territorial biological contract for the greater Pilat region”, the Fédération Départementale des Chasseurs du Rhône et de la Métropole de Lyon (“Departmental Federation of Hunters of the Rhône and Metropolitan Lyon”, FDCRML) was commissioned for the Rhône section of the Gier Valley to assess the capacity of wild animals to cross this valley.
CSO
Didier Dailly, coordinateur des services techniques
student
researcher
Jean-Michel GAILLARD - Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Scientific supervisor :
François MIALHE – 2ème volet – géographie et aménagement – GHHAT, Université Lumière Lyon 2