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Global Roadkill Data: a dataset on terrestrial vertebrate mortality caused by collision with vehicles.

Clara Grilo, Tomé Neves, Jennifer Bates, Aliza le Roux, Pablo Medrano-Vizcaíno, Mattia Quaranta, Inês Silva, Kylie Soanes, Yun Wang, Data Collection Consortium

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Article in Scientific data, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Clara Grilo *CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal. clara.grilo@cibio.up.pt.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9870-3115
Tomé Neves *CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Jennifer BatesDepartment of Geography & Earth Sciences, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, USA.
Aliza le RouxDepartment of Zoology and Entomology, University of the Free State-Qwaqwa, Phuthaditjhaba, Free State, South Africa.
Pablo Medrano-VizcaínoRed Ecuatoriana para el Monitoreo de Fauna Atropellada-REMFA, Quito, Ecuador.
Mattia QuarantaCIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3344-0101
Inês SilvaCenter for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS), Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Görlitz, Germany.
Kylie SoanesSchool of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Yun WangChina Academy of Transportation Sciences, Beijing, China.
Data Collection Consortium

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Roadkill is widely recognized as one of the primary negative effects of roads on many wildlife species and also has socioeconomic impacts when they result in accidents. A comprehensive dataset of roadkill locations is essential to evaluate the factors contributing to roadkill risk and to enhance our comprehension of its impact on wildlife populations and socioeconomic dimensions. We undertook a compilation of roadkill records, encompassing both published and unpublished data gathered from road surveys or opportunistic sources. GLOBAL ROADKILL DATA includes 208,570 roadkill records of terrestrial vertebrates from 54 countries across six continents, encompassing data collected between 1971 and 2024. This dataset serves to minimise the collection of redundant data and acts as a valuable resource for local and macro scale analysis regarding rates of roadkill, road- and landscape-related features associated with risk of roadkill, vulnerability of species to road traffic, and populations at risk of local extinction. The objective of this dataset is to promote scientific progress in infrastructure ecology and terrestrial vertebrate conservation while limiting the socio-economic costs.

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Accidents, TrafficVertebratesAnimalsAnimals, Wild

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PMID40164625
PMCPMC11958749

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