title: Compromise solutions between conservation and road building in the tropics.
abstract: Road construction is now common through wilderness and protected areas in tropical and subtropical countries with adverse consequences for their high native biodiversity. Here, we summarize the scope of the problem and advance specific compromise solutions that reconcile development with conservation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology, and Center for Population Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA. Electronic address: tmcaro@ucdavis.edu.
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Caro
authors.affiliation: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dobson
authors.affiliation: Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
authors.forename: Andrew J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Marshall
authors.affiliation: School Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK.
authors.forename: Carlos A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Peres
mesh_terms: D044822:Biodiversity; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D058735:Environmental Policy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014186:Transportation; D014329:Tropical Climate