When road-kill hotspots do not indicate the best sites for road-kill mitigation

How Effective Is Road Mitigation at Reducing Road-Kill? A Meta-Analysis

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 informat...

Where has all the road kill gone?

Acknowledgments We thank Drs. T. Namikawa, Y. Matsuda, M. Mizutani, and Y. Atsumi for providing PNP roosters. Takashi Yoshimura is supported by the Funding Program for Next Generation World Leading Researchers (NEXT Program) initiated by the Council for Science and Technology Policy (CSTP) and Tsuyoshi Shimmura is supported for JSPS fellows 22-4942. WPIITbM is supported by the World Premier Int...

Do Not Kill Unfeasible Individuals

Any implementation of an evolutionary algorithm for a particular problem must address several important issues; these include genetic representation of solutions to the problem and genetic operators that would alter the genetic composition of offspring during the reproduction process. However, very often (in the presence of nontrivial, problem-specific constraints) it is also necessary to devel...

How Long Do the Dead Survive on the Road? Carcass Persistence Probability and Implications for Road-Kill Monitoring Surveys

BACKGROUND 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 differe...

Do genes allow inflammation to kill or not to kill?