When the road comes,the forest goes.explain what this means in its context.(why are roads made to forest?)
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INTRODUCTION
Widespread attention continues to be drawn to the ecological effects of roads, especially as the road system continues to expand. Roads are created because of changing interactions between people and their environments. They are created to facilitate access to natural resources, to connect human communities, to move goods to markets, and to move people to work. Whatever their purpose, roads, road establishment, road maintenance, and road travel have a broad variety of effects.
In this chapter, the committee addresses the following two questions as stated in its charge:
What are the appropriate spatial scales for different ecological processes that might be affected by roads?
What are the effects of road density on ecosystem structure and functioning and on the provision of ecosystem goods and services?