Are road-kills representative of wildlife community obtained from atlas data?

Systematic road-kill surveys are useful to study the impact of roads on wildlife. However, they are time- and budget-consuming, so the use of non-systematic data in road ecology is currently gaining popularity (for instance, by environmental consultants). Some data sources such as atlases (i.e., com...

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Autores: Quiles Tundidor, Pablo, Ascensão, Fernando, D'Amico, Marcello, Revilla, Eloy, Barrientos Yuste, Rafael
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/128671
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spelling Are road-kills representative of wildlife community obtained from atlas data?Quiles Tundidor, PabloAscensão, FernandoD'Amico, MarcelloRevilla, EloyBarrientos Yuste, Rafael599591.5502.15502.22711.73Atlas dataCarnivoresCitizen scienceRoad ecologyWildlife-vehicle collisionsEcología (Biología)ZoologíaMamíferosComportamiento animal2401.06 Ecología Animal2401 Biología Animal (Zoología)2401.18 Mamíferos2401.02 Comportamiento Animal3105.12 Ordenación y Conservación de la Fauna Silvestre3305.29 Construcción de CarreterasSystematic road-kill surveys are useful to study the impact of roads on wildlife. However, they are time- and budget-consuming, so the use of non-systematic data in road ecology is currently gaining popularity (for instance, by environmental consultants). Some data sources such as atlases (i.e., compilations of species records from a given region), which can include non-systematic and citizen-science data, can entail several intrinsic biases, mostly due to uneven sampling effort and uneven species detectability. Here, we tested this prediction by verifying if data from the Spanish Atlas of Terrestrial Mammals mirror the road-kill patterns obtained from our own systematic road-kill surveys. We focused on the Mediterranean mesocarnivore guild due to its easy identification by citizens involved in atlas-data collection. We tested if the relative abundance of each species, their richness and diversity obtained from Atlas and our systematic surveys were related, using linear models, while controlling for human population and road density (potentially confounding effects). We further compared the patterns of species abundance obtained from both sources. Our results highlight that road-kill patterns do not mirror the Atlas patterns for the three metrics evaluated. This is probably due to survey biases in typical data from wildlife atlases. When analysing species individually, we found that some species are road-killed more (or less) than expected in relation to their abundance in atlas records. These results are probably due to species-specific ecological or behavioural traits such as species morphology or species behaviour when facing the road. We suggest that abundance from atlas data should not be used as a proxy for road-kill rates.Associazione Teriologica ItalianaUniversidad Complutense de Madrid20212021-05-2520212021-05-25journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/128671reponame:Docta Complutenseinstname:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/1286712026-06-02T12:44:21Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Are road-kills representative of wildlife community obtained from atlas data?
title Are road-kills representative of wildlife community obtained from atlas data?
spellingShingle Are road-kills representative of wildlife community obtained from atlas data?
Quiles Tundidor, Pablo
599
591.5
502.15
502.22
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Atlas data
Carnivores
Citizen science
Road ecology
Wildlife-vehicle collisions
Ecología (Biología)
Zoología
Mamíferos
Comportamiento animal
2401.06 Ecología Animal
2401 Biología Animal (Zoología)
2401.18 Mamíferos
2401.02 Comportamiento Animal
3105.12 Ordenación y Conservación de la Fauna Silvestre
3305.29 Construcción de Carreteras
title_short Are road-kills representative of wildlife community obtained from atlas data?
title_full Are road-kills representative of wildlife community obtained from atlas data?
title_fullStr Are road-kills representative of wildlife community obtained from atlas data?
title_full_unstemmed Are road-kills representative of wildlife community obtained from atlas data?
title_sort Are road-kills representative of wildlife community obtained from atlas data?
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Quiles Tundidor, Pablo
Ascensão, Fernando
D'Amico, Marcello
Revilla, Eloy
Barrientos Yuste, Rafael
author Quiles Tundidor, Pablo
author_facet Quiles Tundidor, Pablo
Ascensão, Fernando
D'Amico, Marcello
Revilla, Eloy
Barrientos Yuste, Rafael
author_role author
author2 Ascensão, Fernando
D'Amico, Marcello
Revilla, Eloy
Barrientos Yuste, Rafael
author2_role author
author
author
author
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv 599
591.5
502.15
502.22
711.73
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Carnivores
Citizen science
Road ecology
Wildlife-vehicle collisions
Ecología (Biología)
Zoología
Mamíferos
Comportamiento animal
2401.06 Ecología Animal
2401 Biología Animal (Zoología)
2401.18 Mamíferos
2401.02 Comportamiento Animal
3105.12 Ordenación y Conservación de la Fauna Silvestre
3305.29 Construcción de Carreteras
topic 599
591.5
502.15
502.22
711.73
Atlas data
Carnivores
Citizen science
Road ecology
Wildlife-vehicle collisions
Ecología (Biología)
Zoología
Mamíferos
Comportamiento animal
2401.06 Ecología Animal
2401 Biología Animal (Zoología)
2401.18 Mamíferos
2401.02 Comportamiento Animal
3105.12 Ordenación y Conservación de la Fauna Silvestre
3305.29 Construcción de Carreteras
description Systematic road-kill surveys are useful to study the impact of roads on wildlife. However, they are time- and budget-consuming, so the use of non-systematic data in road ecology is currently gaining popularity (for instance, by environmental consultants). Some data sources such as atlases (i.e., compilations of species records from a given region), which can include non-systematic and citizen-science data, can entail several intrinsic biases, mostly due to uneven sampling effort and uneven species detectability. Here, we tested this prediction by verifying if data from the Spanish Atlas of Terrestrial Mammals mirror the road-kill patterns obtained from our own systematic road-kill surveys. We focused on the Mediterranean mesocarnivore guild due to its easy identification by citizens involved in atlas-data collection. We tested if the relative abundance of each species, their richness and diversity obtained from Atlas and our systematic surveys were related, using linear models, while controlling for human population and road density (potentially confounding effects). We further compared the patterns of species abundance obtained from both sources. Our results highlight that road-kill patterns do not mirror the Atlas patterns for the three metrics evaluated. This is probably due to survey biases in typical data from wildlife atlases. When analysing species individually, we found that some species are road-killed more (or less) than expected in relation to their abundance in atlas records. These results are probably due to species-specific ecological or behavioural traits such as species morphology or species behaviour when facing the road. We suggest that abundance from atlas data should not be used as a proxy for road-kill rates.
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