Journal article
How effective is road mitigation at reducing road-kill? A meta-analysis
T Rytwinski, K Soanes, JAG Jaeger, L Fahrig, CS Findlay, J Houlahan, RD Van Ree, EA Van Der Grift
Plos One | PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE | Published : 2016
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Abstract
Road traffic kills hundreds of millions of animals every year, posing a critical threat to the populations of many species. To address this problem there are more than forty types of road mitigation measures available that aim to reduce wildlife mortality on roads (road-kill). For road planners, deciding on what mitigation method to use has been problematic because there is little good information about the relative effectiveness of these measures in reducing road-kill, and the costs of these measures vary greatly. We conducted a metaanalysis using data from 50 studies that quantified the relationship between road-kill and a mitigation measure designed to reduce road-kill. Overall, mitigatio..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This study was supported by the SAFEROAD project (www.saferoad-cedr.org), part of CEDR Transnational Road Research Programme Call 2013: Roads and Wildlife, which is funded by the national road administrations of Austria, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands and United Kingdom to EvdG, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/)to LF, the Baker Foundation to RvdR and KS, and the ARC Centre for Excellence in Environmental Decisions to KS. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.