Identifying the hotspots of wildlife–vehicle collision on the Çankırı–Kırıkkale highway during summer

Özcan, Ali Uğur; Özkazanç, Nuri Kaan

doi:10.3906/zoo-1601-64

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“…For hedgehogs, road mortality is considered a more severe restriction to dispersal on smaller roads. For example, E. roumanicus in Bulgaria [ 33 ] and E. concolor in Turkey [ 80 ] were shown to have greater casualty rates on quieter, regional roads than highways. This may result from quieter roads allowing more crossing attempts [ 58 ], having fewer physical barriers than major roads and/or their placement in areas with higher hedgehog densities.…”

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Impacts and Potential Mitigation of Road Mortality for Hedgehogs in Europe

Moore

Petrovan

Baker

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Animals

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Transport infrastructure is a pervasive element in modern landscapes and continues to expand to meet the demands of a growing human population and its associated resource consumption. Road-induced mortality is often thought to be a major contributor to the marked declines of European hedgehog populations. This review synthesizes available evidence on the population-level impacts of road mortality and the threat to population viability for the five hedgehog species in Europe. Local and national studies suggest that road mortality can cause significant depletions in population sizes, predominantly removing adult males. Traffic collisions are a probable cause of fragmentation effects, subsequently undermining ecological processes such as dispersal, as well as the genetic variance and fitness of isolated populations. Further studies are necessary to improve population estimates and explicitly examine the consequences of sex- and age-specific mortality rates. Hedgehogs have been reported to use crossing structures, such as road tunnels, yet evaluations of mitigation measures for population survival probability are largely absent. This highlights the need for robust studies that consider population dynamics and genetics in response to mitigation. In light of ongoing declines of hedgehog populations, it is paramount that applied research is prioritised and integrated into a holistic spatial planning process.

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Section: The Role Of Road Mortality In Fragmentation Effectsmentioning

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Impacts and Potential Mitigation of Road Mortality for Hedgehogs in Europe

Moore

Petrovan

Baker

et al. 2020

Animals

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“…According to Abu Bakar (2019) [1] , between 2012 and 2017 a total of 2,444 out of 36 species wildlife were killed in WVC in Peninsular Malaysia. This is a very important fact as other countries have shown that roadkill can reduce the wildlife population (Ozcan et al, 2017) [23] . The effort and action towards mitigation are very much important as WJ is like a husbandry for the wildlife.…”

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“…Roadkill is a fundamental aspect of the wildlife decline, while the traffic volume is a parameter to determine the road impacts (Ozcan & Ozkazanc, 2017;Zhang et al, 2018) [23,35] and it has led to the descendent in animal abundance which resulted in genetic diversity reduction (Cortes & Steury, 2016) [11] . Roadkill can be considered as a new source of fatality (Pandey, 2016) [24] and some countries have considered mitigations to reduce the collisions (Fudge et al, 2008) [14] .…”

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Wildlife species commonly involved in the WVC and roadkill along the roadway in plantation area

Laton¹,

Mohammed²

2022

Int. J. Fauna Biol. Stud.

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This paper aimed to discuss wildlife-vehicle collisions along the roadway in Wilayah Jengka, Pahang, Malaysia and provide the data sources for conservation, preservation and mitigation of wildlife. The primary objective of this survey is to reveal and prepare the roadkill inventory of fauna and avifauna mortality in Wilayah Jengka plantation zone due to wildlife-vehicle collisions. Some of the animals are listed under Schedule 1 and others in Schedule 2 of the Act 716. Wildlife-vehicle collisions (WVC) contributes to road mortality of wildlife species in Wilayah Jengka and little is known about roadkill in this area. The highest mortalities include Common Palm Civet (27.41%), Leopard Cat (14.51%), Large Indian Civet & Barn Owl (9.61% each), Clouded Monitor (8.06%), Long-Tailed Macaque & Wild Boar (6.45% each), Monitor Lizard (4.83%), Greater Coucal, Oriental Honey Buzzard & Red Junglefowl (3.22% each), and White-Breasted Waterhen (1.61%).

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“…Transportation networks fragment natural habits and are one of the most important threats to the survival of wildlife species . Roads can prevent movement of species from one population to another and thereby disrupts the gene flow of wild animals across a landscape; furthermore, the gene pool is reduced as a result of wildlife vehicle collision (Forman and Alexander 1998;Özcan and Özkazanç 2017). Iuell et al (2003) defined five infrastructures/traffic density class for the impact of traffic on wildlife.…”

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