ArticleAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2021
How Is Wildlife Affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic? Lockdown Effect on the Road Mortality of Hedgehogs.
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- The effect of COVID-19 confinement on the activity behaviour of red deer.Global ecology and conservation · 2023Article
- High-resolution app data reveal sustained increases in recreational fishing effort in Europe during and after COVID-19 lockdowns.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Worse sleep and increased energy expenditure yet no movement changes in sub-urban wild boar experiencing an influx of human visitors (anthropulse) during the COVID-19 pandemic.The Science of the total environment · 2023Article
- The effect of decreasing human activity from COVID-19 on the foraging of fallen fruit by omnivores.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- COVID-19 lockdown and natural resources: a global assessment on the challenges, opportunities, and the way forward.Bulletin of the National Research Centre · 2022Review
- Influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on amphibian road mortality.Conservation science and practice · 2021Article
- Anti Covid-19 face-masks increases vigilance in Nubian ibex (Biological conservation · 2021Article
- Animal Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and the Welfare of Animals during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Review
- A decrease in reports on road-killed animals based on citizen science during COVID-19 lockdown.PeerJ · 2021Article
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Abstract
Globally, wildlife is affected by unprecedented changes related to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, the lockdown effect on the traffic-related mortality in hedgehogs in an urban area was studied. Comparing the pre-pandemic (2018 and 2019) and pandemic (2020) years, we showed that hedgehog roadkill levels during the lockdown period were over 50% lower (which means a decrease greater than the decrease in road traffic in the same period measured by the number of accidents or the average number of vehicles per day). Based on literature data, we showed that this may mean at least tens of thousands of hedgehogs have survived on a national scale. We report the need to start intensive research on the possible demographic and genetic effects of this unique phenomenon. We also ask how stable the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic will be on wildlife and whether the lockdown (which is an anthropause) may reverse the negative trends in the decline in the number of wild species, including hedgehogs.
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