| Title |
How Long Do the Dead Survive on the Road? Carcass Persistence Probability and Implications for Road-Kill Monitoring Surveys
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, September 2011
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0025383 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Sara M. Santos, Filipe Carvalho, António Mira |
| Abstract |
Road mortality is probably the best-known and visible impact of roads upon wildlife. Although several factors influence road-kill counts, carcass persistence time is considered the most important determinant underlying underestimates of road mortality. The present study aims to describe and model carcass persistence variability on the road for different taxonomic groups under different environmental conditions throughout the year; and also to assess the effect of sampling frequency on the relative variation in road-kill estimates registered within a survey. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| United States | 3 | 25% |
| Canada | 2 | 17% |
| Japan | 1 | 8% |
| Unknown | 6 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 7 | 58% |
| Scientists | 3 | 25% |
| Unknown | 2 | 17% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Portugal | 6 | 1% |
| United States | 3 | <1% |
| Germany | 2 | <1% |
| Brazil | 2 | <1% |
| Chile | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Czechia | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 5 | 1% |
| Unknown | 394 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Researcher | 75 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 70 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 57 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 54 | 13% |
| Other | 29 | 7% |
| Other | 57 | 14% |
| Unknown | 75 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 204 | 49% |
| Environmental Science | 78 | 19% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 7 | 2% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 5 | 1% |
| Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine | 5 | 1% |
| Other | 29 | 7% |
| Unknown | 89 | 21% |