and large mammals such as elephants may be killed in collisions with trains running on railway tracks. See also Ecotope References C. Sargent, D. W. Shimwell (reviewer). "Britain's Railway Vegetation" Journal of Applied Ecology, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 599–600 (1985) Borda-de-Água, L., Barrientos, R., Beja, P. & Pereira, H.M. (eds). (2017) Railway Ecology. Springer International Publishing, Cham. Ecoregions Rail infrastructure Linear infrastructure intrusions