4276898
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10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108797
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Collinson, Wendy
Endangered Wildlife Trust, Private Bag X 11, Modderfontein 1645, Gauteng, Johannesburg, South Africa
Bíl, Michal
Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc, 17. listopadu 12, Olomouc 771 46, Czech Republic
Vercayie, Diemer
Natuurpunt, Mechelen, Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium
Heigl, Florian
Institute of Zoology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Gregor Mendel Straße 33, 1180 Vienna, Austria
Perkins, Sarah E.
School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AX, United Kingdom
MacDougall, Sandra
School of Arts and Science, Box 5005, Red Deer College, Red Deer, Alberta T4N 5H5, Canada
Designing wildlife-vehicle conflict observation systems to inform ecology and transportation studies
Shilling, Fraser
Road Ecology Center, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616, United States
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Citizen science
Data collection
Road ecology
Wildlife vehicle collision
Carcass reporting systems
<p>Globally, wildlife-vehicle conflict (WVC) fragments wildlife populations (due to road/traffic-aversion), kills and injures individual animals, can cause wildlife population declines, may eventually contribute to local or total extinction of certain species, and can harm vehicles and drivers. Preventing WVC begins with recording locations of conflict, such as vehicle crashes, animal carcasses (roadkill), or animal behavior around roads, such as avoidance of roads or crossing-behavior. These data are ideally used to inform transportation policy and planning and to retrofit roadways and their structures to reduce WVC. We are collectively involved with or manage eight regional or national systems for reporting WVC in collaboration with volunteers and/or agency staff. In this review, we survey systems for recording WVC by volunteers and agency staff at different geographical scales, based on existing literature and our personal experience. We report the range of data collection methods, data management systems and data visualizations employed as well as discuss the groups and type of volunteers and agencies involved. We use our expertise and the global survey to provide methodological specifications based on current best-practice for collecting and using WVC data to inform transportation and conservation decisions. We conclude with a vision of next steps toward a global network of WVC reporting systems, that have clear and practical applications for improved conservation research as well as guidelines for management of road networks.</p>
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2020-10-05
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