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Wildlife roadkill and COVID-19: a biologically significant, but heterogeneous, reduction.

Published online: 04 Aug 2022

Authors: Pokorny, B. & Cerri, J. & Bužan, E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Collisions with vehicles are a major cause of wildlife mortality. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries enforced lockdowns that reduced vehicul...

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The effect of car traffic on breeding bird populations in woodland. IV. Influence of population size on the reduction of density close to a highway.

Published online: 02 Nov 1995

Authors: Reijnen, R. & Foppen, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Data are reported from studies at 3 sites crossed by highway A2 between Utrecht and Eindhoven, Netherlands - one near woodland dominated by Populus, a...

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The impact of vehicles on dune and grassland vegetation on a south-eastern North Carolina barrier beach.

Published online: 01 Jan 1981

Authors: Hosier, P. E. & Eaton, T. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Two barrier beaches were compared with respect to vegetation patterns and soil compaction. One had been widely used by off-road vehicles the other had...

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Predicting bird-window collisions with weather radar.

Published online: 05 Oct 2021

Authors: Elmore, J. A. & Riding, C. S. & Horton, K. G. & O'Connell, T. J. & Farnsworth, A. & Loss, S. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Up to 1 billion birds die annually in the U.S. from window collisions; most of these casualties represent migratory native species. Because this major...

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The impact of a road upon adjacent heathland vegetation: effects on plant species composition.

Published online: 30 Jun 1997

Authors: Angold, P. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The effect of a road upon heathland vegetation was investigated at five sites adjacent to the main trunk road through the New Forest, Hampshire, UK, w...

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Tourism informing conservation: the distribution of four dolphin species varies with calf presence and increases their vulnerability to vessel traffic in the four-island region of Maui, Hawai'i.

Published online: 01 Jul 2021

Authors: Self, H. & Stack, S. H. & Currie, J. J. & Lusseau, D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

We need reliable information about the spatial and temporal distribution of mobile species to effectively manage anthropogenic impacts to which they a...

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Factors affecting the permeability of transportation and riparian corridors to the movements of songbirds in an urban landscape.

Published online: 06 Jan 2010

Authors: Tremblay, M. A. & St. Clair, C. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Linear features associated with transportation and riparian corridors are known to inhibit the mobility of birds and other wildlife, yet the factors c...

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Reproductive failure of a human-tolerant species, the American kestrel, is associated with stress and human disturbance.

Published online: 31 Jul 2013

Authors: Strasser, E. H. & Heath, J. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The rapid increase of human activity in wild and developed areas presents novel challenges for wildlife. Some species may use human-dominated landscap...

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Stress of spatial orientation of floating populations into Tibet on fragile ecosystem-using geo-tagged big data.

Published online: 03 Apr 2024

Authors: Fan Jie & Liu HanChu & Sun ZhongRui & Yi JiaWei & Liu BaoYin & Chen Dong & Guo Rui & Sun Zhe & Zhao Hao

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Increased global floating populations is an important driver of local social-ecological systems change, especially in ecologically fragile areas. Howe...

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Accounting for cloud cover and circannual variation puts the effect of lunar phase on deer-vehicle collisions into perspective.

Published online: 08 Jan 2024

Authors: Cerri, J. & Stendardi, L. & Bužan, E. & Pokorny, B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

enThis link goes to a English sectionslThis link goes to a English section Although several studies have focused on the influence of moonlight on deer...

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