[HTML][HTML] Wildlife-vehicle collisions-Influencing factors, data collection and research methods

R Pagany - Biological conservation, 2020 - Elsevier
Wildlife-vehicle collisions (WVCs) are caused by the close interaction of human and wildlife
habitats worldwide. The large number of globally distributed accidents and the variety of …

LIES of omission: complex observation processes in ecology

FJ Chadwick, DT Haydon, D Husmeier… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2024 - cell.com
Advances in statistics mean that it is now possible to tackle increasingly sophisticated
observation processes. The intricacies and ambitious scale of modern data collection …

Elevated wildlife-vehicle collision rates during the COVID-19 pandemic

JO Abraham, MA Mumma - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Wildlife-vehicle collisions threaten both humans and wildlife, but we still lack information
about the relationship between traffic volume and wildlife-vehicle collisions. The COVID-19 …

A reprieve from US wildlife mortality on roads during the COVID-19 pandemic

F Shilling, T Nguyen, M Saleh, MK Kyaw, K Tapia… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
High traffic volume is one of the main contributors to wildlife-vehicle collision (WVC) and
wildlife mortality on roads. Government shelter-in-place (SIP) orders have been used to help …

Permanent daylight saving time would reduce deer-vehicle collisions

CX Cunningham, TA Nuñez, Y Hentati, B Sullender… - Current biology, 2022 - cell.com
Overlap between wildlife and human activity is key to causing wildlife-vehicle collisions, a
globally pervasive and growing source of wildlife mortality. 1, 2 Policies regarding clock time …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 related travel restrictions prevented numerous wildlife deaths on roads: A comparative analysis of results from 11 countries

M Bíl, R Andrášik, V Cícha, A Arnon, M Kruuse… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Millions of wild animals are killed annually on roads worldwide. During spring 2020, the
volume of road traffic was reduced globally as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic …

Importance of professional roadkill data in assessing diversity of mammal roadkills

L Balčiauskas, J Stratford, L Balčiauskienė… - … Research Part D …, 2020 - Elsevier
With considerable under-reporting of roadkills, the impact of transport on biodiversity is
mostly underestimated. The main goal of this study was to compare official roadkill records …

Designing wildlife-vehicle conflict observation systems to inform ecology and transportation studies

F Shilling, W Collinson, M Bil, D Vercayie, F Heigl… - Biological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Globally, wildlife-vehicle conflict (WVC) fragments wildlife populations (due to road/traffic-
aversion), kills and injures individual animals, can cause wildlife population declines, may …

The impact of roadkill on cervid populations in Lithuania

L Balčiauskas, A Kučas, L Balčiauskienė - Forests, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cervid roadkill, including moose, red deer and roe deer, can pose a risk to drivers and are
frequently registered. However, the roadkill influence on overall cervid populations is not …

Temporal patterns of wildlife roadkill in the UK

S Raymond, ALW Schwartz, RJ Thomas, E Chadwick… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Wildlife-vehicle collisions are one of the main causes of mortality for wild mammals and
birds in the UK. Here, using a dataset of 54,000+ records collated by a citizen science …