Online community photo-sharing in entomology: a large-scale review with suggestions on best practices

MJ Skvarla, JR Fisher - Annals of the Entomological Society of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Over the past 2 decades, digital photography has grown increasingly accessible. This has
ushered in a golden age of community science, where nonspecialists share natural history …

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 …

Recovery of ghost crabs metapopulations on urban beaches during the Covid-19 “anthropause”

LL Costa, PM Machado, CA de Moura Barboza… - Marine Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
The majority of government authorities initially responded to COVID-19 pandemic by
declaring lockdown to facilitate social distancing and minimize virus spreading. This period …

The presence of COVID-19 face masks in the largest hypersaline lagoon of South America is predicted by urbanization level

LL Costa, DF Rangel, IR Zalmon - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2023 - Elsevier
The inadequate disposal of face masks has caused a widespread presence of COVID-19
litter in the environment. We monitored 10 beach arcs along approximately 15 km of the …

A comprehensive review of the effects of roads on salamanders

AE Ochs, RK Swihart, MR Saunders - Landscape Ecology, 2024 - Springer
Context Road expansion has raised concerns regarding road effects on wildlife and
ecosystems within the landscape. Salamanders, critical ecosystem components and …

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 …

Worse sleep and increased energy expenditure yet no movement changes in sub-urban wild boar experiencing an influx of human visitors (anthropulse) during the …

A Olejarz, M Faltusová, L Börger… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Expansion of urban areas, landscape transformation and increasing human outdoor
activities strongly affect wildlife behaviour. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in …

Estimating road mortality hotspots while accounting for imperfect detection: A case study with amphibians and reptiles

N Hallisey, SW Buchanan, BD Gerber, LS Corcoran… - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
Wildlife road mortality tends to aggregate spatially at locations commonly referred to as road
mortality hotspots. Predictive models can be used to identify locations appropriate for …