Understanding spatio-temporal patterns of deer-vehicle collisions to improve roadkill mitigation

M Mayer, JC Nielsen, M Elmeros, P Sunde - Journal of environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Vehicles collide with hundreds of thousands of deer on European roads each year. This
leads to animal deaths and suffering, economic damage and risks for human safety, making …

COVID-19 restrictions provide a brief respite from the wildlife roadkill toll

MM Driessen - Biological Conservation, 2021 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic provides a rare opportunity to reveal the impact of reduced human
activity on wildlife. I compared traffic volume and wildlife roadkill data along 18 km of …

Sustainable landscape planning to mitigate wildlife–vehicle collisions

A Fedorca, M Fedorca, O Ionescu, R Jurj, G Ionescu… - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
Road development, traffic intensification, and collisions with wildlife represent a danger both
for road safety and species conservation. For planners, deciding which mitigation methods …

[HTML][HTML] Better safe than sorry–Understanding the attitude and habits of drivers can help mitigating animal-vehicle collisions

S Borza, L Godó, O Valkó, Z Végvári, B Deák - Journal of environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
The rapidly growing global road networks put serious pressures on terrestrial ecosystems
and increase the number and severity of human-wildlife conflicts, which in most cases …

Space use and temporal partitioning of sympatric Tasmanian devils and spotted‐tailed quolls

GE Andersen, CN Johnson, ME Jones - Austral Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Sympatric species can minimise interspecific competition by spatial avoidance or by altering
their temporal activity to reduce encounter rates. The Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) …

Light at the end of the tunnel: Innovative opportunities for saving tropical biodiversity

D Vasiliev, R Hazlett, KL Hutchinson, L Bornmalm - Ambio, 2024 - Springer
The expansion of roads into wilderness areas and biodiversity hotspots in the Global South
seems inevitable and is predicted to bring about significant biodiversity loss. Even so …

Factors that drive koala roadkill: an analysis across multiple scales in New South Wales, Australia

D Lunney, M Predavec, I Sonawane… - Australian …, 2022 - CSIRO Publishing
A challenge to understanding the impacts of roads on koalas is that their effects operate
across multiple scales. To determine what conditions underlie koala roadkill, we looked at …

Long‐term spatiotemporal dynamics and factors associated with trends in bare‐nosed wombats

S Carver, M Charleston, G Hocking… - The Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Geographically widespread species present challenges for conservation assessment. We
used long‐term spotlight surveys to assess spatiotemporal dynamics of bare‐nosed …

Can virtual fences reduce wombat road mortalities?

HJ Stannard, MB Wynan, RJ Wynan, BA Dixon… - Ecological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Roadkill is a worldwide issue that can cause local population extinctions. In Australia
numerous species are affected, however the bare-nosed wombat (Vombatus ursinus) is …

A trial of a solar-powered, cooperative sensor/actuator, opto-acoustical, virtual road-fence to mitigate roadkill in Tasmania, Australia

B Englefield, SG Candy, M Starling, PD McGreevy - Animals, 2019 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The Australian state of Tasmania has a high rate of roadkill, so any method
that reduces roadkill in this state deserves attention. A commercial roadkill mitigation device …