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Título : Wildlife roadkill patterns in a fragmented landscape of the Western Amazon
Autor : Filius, Jonathan
van der Hoek, Intze
Jarrín Valladares, Pablo Santiago
Palabras clave : Amazon
Herpetofauna
Hotspots
Road ecology
Roadkill
Spatial patterns
Fecha de publicación : 2020
Editorial : Springer Netherlands
Citación : Filius, J., van der Hoek, Y., Jarrín-V, P., & van Hooft, P. (2020). Wildlife roadkill patterns in a fragmented landscape of the Western Amazon. Ecology and Evolution, 10(13), 6623–6635. doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6394
Citación : REPRODUCCIÓN CIENTÍFICA- ARTÍCULO CIENTÍFICO;A-IKIAM-000267
Resumen : One of the most evident and direct effects of roads on wildlife is the death of animals by vehicle collision. Understanding the spatial patterns behind roadkill helps to plan mitigation measures to reduce the impacts of roads on animal populations. However, although roadkill patterns have been extensively studied in temperate zones, the potential impacts of roads on wildlife in the Neotropics have received less attention and are particularly poorly understood in the Western Amazon. Here, we present the results of a study on roadkill in the Amazon region of Ecuador; a region that is affected by a rapidly increasing development of road infrastructure. Over the course of 50 days, in the wet season between September and November 2017, we searched for road-killed vertebrates on 15.9 km of roads near the city of Tena, Napo province, for a total of 1,590 surveyed kilometers. We recorded 593 dead specimens, predominantly reptiles (237 specimens, 40%) and amphibians (190, 32%), with birds (102, 17%) and mammals (64, 11%) being less common. Recorded species were assigned to three functional groups, based on their movement behavior and habitat use (“slow,” “intermediate,” and “fast”). Using Ripley's K statistical analyses and 2D HotSpot Identification Analysis, we found multiple distinct spatial clusters or hotspots, where roadkill was particularly frequent. Factors that potentially determined these clusters, and the prevalence of roadkill along road segments in general, differed between functional groups, but often included land cover variables such as native forest and waterbodies, and road characteristics such as speed limit (i.e., positive effect on roadkill frequency). Our study, which provides a first summary of species that are commonly found as roadkill in this part of the Amazon region, contributes to a better understanding of the negative impacts of roads on wildlife and is an important first step toward conservation efforts to mitigate these impacts.
URI : https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6394
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