Carnivore abundance near motorways related to prey and roadkills.

Landscape disturbance by roads may increase abundance of prey in verges (i.e., strips of terrain adjacent to roadways) or create other features that can attract carnivores and expose them to a higher risk of mortality by vehicle collision. We studied a system that included European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) and their predators in central Spain near 3 motorways during 2011 and 2012. We analyzed carnivore and rabbit abundance and the potential effect of prey populations on carnivore roadkill. We estimated rabbit and carnivore abundance index by surveying scats in 1‐km transects in the landscape, and calculated a roadkill index in motorway stretches parallel to the transects from roadkill data obtained in a roadkill monitoring survey from 2007 to 2011. We analyzed carnivore response for the entire carnivore community and for 2 groups of species: the red fox, which is the most synanthropic carnivore in our …

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Planillo A. Mata C. Manica A. y Malo J.E. Carnivore abundance near motorways related to prey and roadkills. The wildlife society, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.21384

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Date of creation 2025-05-23
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Name of the dataset creator Planillo, A., Mata, C., Manica, A. y Malo, J.E.
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