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Ungulate vehicle collisions in a peri-urban environment: consequences of tran...
Ungulate vehicle collisions (UVC) provoke serious damage, including human casualties, and a large number of measures have been developed around the world to avoid collisions. We... -
Can we explain regional abundance and road‐kill patterns with variables deriv...
We evaluated the transferability of variables previously found to have a significant effect on European polecat Mustela putorius road‐kills at a local scale (i.e. 50m around... -
Comparing spatial statistical methods to detect amphibian road mortality hots...
Animal mortality on roads is one of the main concerns on wildlife conservation. Due to their habitat requirements, amphibians became one of the most commonly road-killed group... -
Fauna involucrada en accidentes de tráfico en la provincia de Salamanca (1997...
Desde 1997 a 2002 inclusive, de acuerdo a datos de la DGT (Dirección General de Tráfico), en la provincia de Salamanca (centro-oeste de España) se produjeron un total de 587... -
Wildlife collisions put a dent in road safety.
Ascensão, F., Barrientos, R. y D’Amico, M. Wildlife collisions put a dent in road safety. Science. [s.l.]: Science. 2021, Vol. 374, Num. 6572, pag. 1208. DOI... -
Wildlife-vehicle collisions in Spain.
Wildlife-vehicle collisions (WVC) are important in wildlife management due to their increasing socioeconomic impacts and pervasive effect on some endangered species. In this... -
Informe provisional del seguimiento de la mortalidad de vertebrados en las ca...
Preliminary report on vertebrate mortality on roads of Madrid province. Frequency distribution: mammals (65%), birds (30%), reptiles (9%), and amphibians (9%). Many small-sized... -
Informe provisional del seguimiento de la mortalidad de vertebrados en las ca...
Preliminary report of vertebrate mortality on roads of Vizcaya and Guipúzcoa provinces, N Spain. The frequency distribution of casualties among taxa was: mammals (77%), birds... -
A spatial approach for modeling amphibian road-kills: comparison of regressio...
Road networks are the main source of mortality for many species. Amphibians, which are in global decline, are the most road-killed fauna group, due to their activity patterns... -
Influence of new irrigated croplands on wild boar (Sus scrofa) road kills in ...
Influencia de los nuevos cultivos en regadío sobre las colisiones de vehículos con jabalí (Sus scrofa) en el Noroeste de España Las poblaciones de jabalí han aumentado en número... -
Accidentes de tráfico con animales silvestres.
Malo, J.E., Suárez, F. y Díez, A. Accidentes de tráfico con animales silvestres. Revista Quercus. [s.l.]: Quercus. 2005, Vol. 237, pags. 22-27. ISSN ISSN 0212-0054 Palabras... -
Mixed sampling protocols improve the cost-effectiveness of roadkill surveys.
Road mortality due to animal vehicle collisions has serious negative effects on population viability, demanding urgent implementation of mitigation measures where most required.... -
Amphibian road-kills in Mediterranean habitats.
D’Amico, M. Amphibian road-kills in Mediterranean habitats. MSc thesis. Estación Biológica de Doñana y Universidad Pablo de Olavide. [s.l.]: Pablo de Olavide University. 2009,... -
Effectiveness of an anti-bird strike tubular screen in a high-speed railway.
A High speed trains run at speeds over 250 km/h, and birds which coincide in their trajectories are thus unable to avoid crashing or being affected by turbulence provoked by... -
Los atropellos de fauna cinegética en la provincia de Zamora.
Colino Rabanal, V.J., Peris, S.J. y Lizana Avia, M. Los atropellos de fauna cinegética en la provincia de Zamora. Anuario del Instituto de Estudios Zamoranos Florián de Ocampo.... -
The risk of being hungry: influence of prey availability in verges on predato...
Road verges may provide important refuges for small fauna, particularly when roads cross intensive agricultural or grazed landscapes. In these circumstances, the increasing use... -
Factors influencing vertebrate carcasses retention time on roads: a prelimina...
Monitoring vertebrate roadkills is a task increasingly done in the last decades in order to better evaluate the impact of roads on wildlife. However, these studies usually... -
Magnitude, composition and spatiotemporal patterns of vertebrate roadkill at ...
Although roadkill studies on a large scale are challenging, they can provide valuable information to assess the impact of road traffic on animal populations. Over 22 months... -
A review of searcher efficiency and carcass persistence in infrastructure-dri...
Infrastructures in natural areas are expanding rapidly worldwide. Consequently, roads, power-lines, and wind-farms cause millions of fatalities across several animal groups.... -
Vertebrados atropellados en dos carreteras orensanas. Primer informe.
Data on vertebrate mortality in two roads of Orense province (NW Spain). A total of 18 km were surveyed in one national and one local road during six months on a weekly basis. A...