The value of monitoring wildlife roadkill

ALW Schwartz, FM Shilling, SE Perkins - European journal of wildlife …, 2020 - Springer
The number of wildlife-vehicle collisions has an obvious value in estimating the direct effects
of roads on wildlife, ie mortality due to vehicle collisions. Given the nature of the data …

[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 …

Detection dogs in nature conservation: A database on their world‐wide deployment with a review on breeds used and their performance compared to other methods

A Grimm‐Seyfarth, W Harms… - Methods in Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last century, dogs have been increasingly used to detect rare and elusive species
or traces of them. The use of wildlife detection dogs (WDD) is particularly well‐established in …

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] Beware that the lack of wildlife mortality records can mask a serious impact of linear infrastructures

F Ascensão, A Kindel, FZ Teixeira, R Barrientos… - Global Ecology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Linear infrastructures (eg roads, railways or power lines) promote a myriad of negative
impacts on wildlife around the world, of which direct mortality is the most visible one. When …

Railway ecology vs. road ecology: similarities and differences

R Barrientos, F Ascensão, P Beja, HM Pereira… - European journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Railway ecology is an emerging discipline. In this review, we focus on what is known today
regarding the impacts of railways on wildlife, and on the methods to identify, monitor, and …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of wind power plants on mammalian and avian wildlife species in shrub-and woodlands

EM Schöll, U Nopp-Mayr - Biological Conservation, 2021 - Elsevier
Wind energy, being one source of renewable energy, is one of the fastest increasing sectors
worldwide, but it can have negative impacts on wildlife. Wind power plants have been …

The effects of powerlines on bustards: how best to mitigate, how best to monitor?

JP Silva, AT Marques, J Bernardino… - Bird Conservation …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Bustards comprise a highly threatened family of birds and, being relatively fast, heavy fliers
with very limited frontal visual fields, are particularly susceptible to mortality at powerlines …

Demographic and potential biological removal models identify raptor species sensitive to current and future wind energy

JE Diffendorfer, JC Stanton, JA Beston… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A central challenge in applied ecology is understanding the effect of anthropogenic fatalities
on wildlife populations and predicting which populations may be particularly vulnerable and …

Road-effect mitigation promotes connectivity and reduces mortality at the population-level

SP Boyle, MG Keevil, JD Litzgus, D Tyerman… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Roads are one of the most prevalent threats to wildlife because they fragment landscapes
and increase mortality. In response to the threat of roads to population persistence, road …