ArticleEcology and evolution2023
First national assessment of wildlife mortality in Ecuador: An effort from citizens and academia to collect roadkill data at country scale.
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- Human-Caused High Direct Mortality in Birds: Unsustainable Trends and Ameliorative Actions.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Spatiotemporal Patterns of Reptile and Amphibian Road Fatalities in a Natura 2000 Area: A 12-Year Monitoring of the Lake Karla Mediterranean Wetland.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Gut bacterial communities in roadkill animals: A pioneering study of two species in the Amazon region in Ecuador.PloS one · 2024Article
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- Road Infrastructure and Primate Conservation: Introducing the Global Primate Roadkill Database.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- First national assessment of wildlife mortality in Ecuador: An effort from citizens and academia to collect roadkill data at country scale.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
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Abstract
Ecuador has both high richness and high endemism, which are increasingly threatened by anthropic pressures, including roads. Research evaluating the effects of roads remains scarce, making it difficult to develop mitigation plans. Here, we present the first national assessment of wildlife mortality on roads that allow us to (1) estimate roadkill rates per species, (2) identify affected species and areas, and (3) reveal knowledge gaps. We bring together data from systematic surveys and citizen science efforts to present a dataset with 5010 wildlife roadkill records from 392 species, and we also provide 333 standardized corrected roadkill rates calculated on 242 species. Systematic surveys were reported by ten studies from five Ecuadorian provinces, revealing 242 species with corrected roadkill rates ranging from 0.03 to 171.72 ind./km/year. The highest rates were for the yellow warbler
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