COVID-19's environmental impacts: Challenges and implications for the future

L Ang, E Hernández-Rodríguez, V Cyriaque… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Strict measures have curbed the spread of COVID-19, but waste generation and movement
limitations have had an unintended impact on the environment over the past 3 years (2020 …

Behavioral responses of terrestrial mammals to COVID-19 lockdowns

MA Tucker, AM Schipper, TSF Adams, N Attias, T Avgar… - Science, 2023 - science.org
COVID-19 lockdowns in early 2020 reduced human mobility, providing an opportunity to
disentangle its effects on animals from those of landscape modifications. Using GPS data …

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 …

Wildlife roadkill and COVID‐19: A biologically significant, but heterogeneous, reduction

B Pokorny, J Cerri, E Bužan - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Collisions with vehicles are a major cause of wildlife mortality. During the COVID‐19
pandemic, many countries enforced lockdowns that reduced vehicular traffic and …

Avian behaviour changes in response to human activity during the COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom

MH Warrington, MB Schrimpf… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Human activities may impact animal habitat and resource use, potentially influencing
contemporary evolution in animals. In the United Kingdom, COVID-19 lockdown restrictions …

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on road safety in Tamil Nadu, India

K Paramasivan, N Sudarsanam - … journal of injury control and safety …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This study uses structured literature mapping to review worldwide trends in traffic safety
following the phenomenon of the COVID-19 pandemic. Motivated by dissimilar findings …

Changes in the feeding ecology of an opportunistic predator inhabiting urban environments in response to COVID-19 lockdown

M Vez-Garzón, J Giménez… - Royal Society …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Urban-dwelling species present feeding and behavioural innovation that enable them to
adjust to anthropogenic food subsidies available in cities. In 2020, the SARS-CoV-2 virus …

[PDF][PDF] 'Animals under wheels': Wildlife roadkill data collection by citizen scientists as a part of their nature recording activities

KRR Swinnen, A Jacobs, K Claus… - Nature …, 2022 - natureconservation.pensoft.net
'Animals under wheels' is a citizen science driven project that has collected almost 90,000
roadkill records from Flanders, Belgium, mainly between 2008 and 2020. However, until …

Lockdown's Silver Lining? Different Levels of Roadkill during the COVID-19 Times in Lithuania

L Balčiauskas, J Stratford, A Kučas, L Balčiauskienė - Animals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The impact of COVID-19-related human and vehicular mobility restrictions
on the number of roadkills of wild mammals, and roe deer in particular, was assessed in …

Anthropause opportunities: experimental perturbation of road traffic and the potential effects on wildlife

SE Perkins, F Shilling, W Collinson - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic severely reduced many human activities. So pronounced was
the change, it has given rise to the term “anthropause”: the considerable alteration of …