Direct mortality of birds from anthropogenic causes

SR Loss, T Will, PP Marra - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Understanding and reversing the widespread population declines of birds require estimating
the magnitude of all mortality sources. Numerous anthropogenic mortality sources directly …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of road density and pattern on the conservation of species and biodiversity

VJ Bennett - Current Landscape Ecology Reports, 2017 - Springer
The development and presence of roads can reduce landscape permeability, lead to habitat
loss, and increase habitat fragmentation. It is these fundamental changes in landscape …

Estimation of bird‐vehicle collision mortality on US roads

SR Loss, T Will, PP Marra - The Journal of Wildlife …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Roads have numerous direct and indirect ecological impacts on wildlife. Vehicle collisions
are a top impact of roads on birds, with tens of millions of birds thought to be killed each year …

When road‐kill hotspots do not indicate the best sites for road‐kill mitigation

F Zimmermann Teixeira, A Kindel… - Journal of Applied …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The effectiveness of measures installed to mitigate wildlife road‐kill depends on their
placement along the road. Road‐kill hotspots are frequently used to identify priority locations …

Preventing wildlife roadkill can offset mitigation investments in short-medium term

F Ascensão, DR Yogui, MH Alves, AC Alves… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Wildlife vehicle collisions (WVC) are a threat to wildlife and humans, killing millions of
animals of numerous species, as well as causing significant damage to vehicles, drivers and …

[HTML][HTML] Movement predictability of individual barn owls facilitates estimation of home range size and survival

S Cain, T Solomon, Y Leshem, S Toledo, E Arnon… - Movement Ecology, 2023 - Springer
Background There is growing attention to individuality in movement, its causes and
consequences. Similarly to other well-established personality traits (eg, boldness or …

[PDF][PDF] Estimates of Avian Mortality Attributed to Vehicle Collisions in Canada Estimation de la mortalité aviaire attribuable aux collisions automobiles au Canada

CA Bishop, JM Brogan - Avian Conservation and Ecology, 2013 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
Although mortality of birds from collisions with vehicles is estimated to be in the millions in
the USA, Europe, and the UK, to date, no estimates exist for Canada. To address this, we …

How do landscape context and fences influence roadkill locations of small and medium-sized mammals?

J Plante, JAG Jaeger, A Desrochers - Journal of environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Road mortality is the most easily visible effect of roads and traffic on wildlife populations.
Mitigation measures such as fences and wildlife passages have been applied to reduce …

Habitat use by barn owls across a rural to urban gradient and an assessment of stressors including, habitat loss, rodenticide exposure and road mortality

S Hindmarch, JE Elliott, S Mccann… - Landscape and Urban …, 2017 - Elsevier
Urbanization and agricultural intensification resulting in habitat loss is having a profound
negative effect on grassland and farmland birds worldwide. Barn owls (Tyto furcata), as a …

Modeling the impact of road mortality on barn owl (Tyto alba) populations using age-structured models

L Borda-de-Água, C Grilo, HM Pereira - Ecological Modelling, 2014 - Elsevier
Road mortality affects natural populations worldwide. Although the effects of road mortality
are often documented, studies assessing the impact of road mortality on the viability of the …