ArticleConservation science and practice2021
Influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on amphibian road mortality.
Article in Conservation science and practice, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- The presence of COVID-19 face masks in the largest hypersaline lagoon of South America is predicted by urbanization level.Marine pollution bulletin · 2023Article
- Economic pressures of Covid-19 lockdowns result in increased timber extraction within a critically endangered region: A case study from the Pacific Forest of Ecuador.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Avian behaviour changes in response to human activity during the COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Recovery of ghost crabs metapopulations on urban beaches during the Covid-19 "anthropause".Marine environmental research · 2022Article
- Influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on amphibian road mortality.Conservation science and practice · 2021Article
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic and its related human activity shutdowns provide unique opportunities for biodiversity monitoring through what has been termed the "anthropause" or the "great human confinement experiment." The pandemic caused immense disruption to human activity in the northeastern United States in the spring of 2020, with notable reductions in traffic levels. These shutdowns coincided with the seasonal migration of adult amphibians, which are typically subject to intense vehicle-impact mortality. Using data collected as part of an annual community science monitoring program in Maine from 2018 to 2021, we examined how amphibian mortality probabilities responded to reductions in traffic during the pandemic. While we detected a 50% decline for all amphibians, this was driven entirely by reductions in frog mortality. Wildlife collision data from the Maine Department of Transportation on other wildlife species support our finding of drastic declines in wildlife road mortality in spring 2020 when compared with immediately previous and subsequent years. Additionally, we find that frogs suffer significantly higher road mortality than salamanders, particularly when conditions are warmer and wetter.
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