The global road network is rapidly growing associated with human economic development.
This growth also entails a high toll for biodiversity, with several well-documented negative …

Human activity and land use change impact every landscape on Earth, driving declines in
many animal species while benefiting others. Species ecological and life history traits may …

Aim The road network is increasing globally but the consequences of roadkill on the viability
of wildlife populations are largely unknown. We provide a framework that allows us to …

Aim Roads are a major threat for wildlife, degrading habitat and causing mortality via wildlife–
vehicle collisions. In Latin America, the conjunction of high biodiversity and a rapidly …

Millions of wild animals are killed annually on roads worldwide. During spring 2020, the
volume of road traffic was reduced globally as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic …

Road mortalities caused by wildlife–vehicle collisions (WVCs) are the most obvious negative
effect of roads on wildlife. Identifying the influencing factors and summarizing the spatial …

Vehicles collide with hundreds of thousands of deer on European roads each year. This
leads to animal deaths and suffering, economic damage and risks for human safety, making …

Understanding when and where roadkill is most likely to occur is vital to reducing wildlife-
vehicle collisions. However, little is known about how roadkill rates change through time and …

Wildlife mortality due to collisions with vehicles (roadkill) is one of the predominant negative
effects exerted by roads on many wildlife species. Reducing roadkill is therefore a major …

Guidelines identifying appropriate DNA extraction methods for both museum and modern
biological samples are scarce or non-existent for mammalian species. Yet, obtaining large …