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Was lernen wir aus den weltweit unterschiedlichen Roadkill Projekten? Hier ist unser Blogpost auf Österreich forscht zu unserer neuen Publikation für euch: -science.at/blog/was-lernen-wir-aus-den-weltweit-unterschiedlichsten-roadkill-meldesystemen
Monitoring the presence and distribution of alien species is pivotal to assessing the risk of biological invasion. In our study, we carried out a worldwide review of roadkill data to investigate geographical patterns of biological invasions. We hypothesise that roadkill data from published literature can turn out to be a valuable resource for researchers and wildlife managers, especially when more focused surveys cannot be performed. We retrieved a total of 2314 works published until January 2022. Among those, only 41 (including our original data) fitted our requirements (i.e., including a total list of roadkilled terrestrial vertebrates, with a number of affected individuals for each species) and were included in our analysis. All roadkilled species from retrieved studies were classified as native or introduced (domestic, paleo-introduced, or recently released). We found that a higher number of introduced species would be recorded among roadkill in Mediterranean and Temperate areas with respect to Tropical and Desert biomes. This is definitely in line with the current knowledge on alien species distribution at the global scale, thus confirming that roadkill datasets can be used beyond the study of road impacts, such as for an assessment of different levels of biological invasions among different countries.
We used habitat suitability (Maxent) and connectivity (Circuit theory) models to derive 15 metrics potentially affecting roadkill risk. We tested their influence using Bayesian generalized linear models and generalized linear models comparing golden jackal roadkill locations to random locations. Furthermore, we tested if there were significant sex, age-related and seasonal differences among road-killed individuals.
We found that roadkill risk was higher in areas characterized by higher values of habitat suitability and connectivity, habitat fragmentation and along highways. It was lower with increasing distance to the source population and in the presence of guardrails. No significant differences were detected in terms of roadkill risk between sexes, age classes and season
Predictive modelling approaches provide strong support in the investigation of the environmental factors affecting roadkill risk, thus enabling researchers to relate roadkill events to road-related characteristics (e.g., Malo et al. 2004; Green-Barber and Old 2019; Collinson et al. 2019), as well as to predict areas where roadkill risk is higher, integrating data on habitat suitability and connectivity (Girardet et al. 2015; Fabrizio et al. 2019a, b; Russo et al. 2020). Such studies provide important information that can be used by road managers to develop adequate road designs through the implementation of mitigation measures (Malo et al. 2004; Plante et al. 2019).
The purpose of this study is to assess the factors affecting the road mortality risk for golden jackal, both through the analysis of habitat suitability and connectivity and by exploring the landscape metrics at sites of roadkill incidents. We predicted to observe that golden jackal roadkill risk may increase in response to (i) habitat suitability and connectivity, with higher mortality risk near less favourable areas and higher landscape connectivity, (ii) human-modified landscapes (i.e., higher risk closer to human infrastructures and in highly fragmented habitats), and (iii) intrinsic biological and seasonal factors (i.e., higher risk biased toward males and subadults and during breeding season).
To understand the influence of landscape connectivity on roadkill locations, we developed a connectivity model using the circuit theory, implemented in the Circuitscape Software (v. 4.0.5; McRae and Shah 2009). The choice of circuit theory relies on the assumption that, like other wild canids (Gutman et al. 2002; Cohen et al. 2013), the golden jackal may be particularly vulnerable to roadkill during the dispersal period and daily displacements. Indeed, circuit theory is based on a Markovian random walk, i.e., random walkers do not have knowledge regarding landscape (McRae et al. 2008) and it is a more realistic approximation of dispersal movements than other analyses (McClure et al. 2016). Furthermore, it incorporates multiple pathways (McRae et al. 2008). Circuitscape runs current across raster resistance surfaces, which can typically be defined as the inverse of habitat suitability maps (Zeller et al. 2012). Higher densities of current among habitat patches indicate areas through which successful dispersers are more likely to move. Moreover, pinch points can be identified, i.e., features through which dispersers have high probabilities of crossing due to the bottleneck effect of high resistance values of the landscape (McRae et al. 2008). The current is conducted between source and sink locations (hereafter focal nodes) (McRae et al. 2008). However, our focus was to evaluate the connectivity across the entire study area, without any a-priori reason to place focal nodes. Therefore, we predicted the HSM to a 40 km buffer area along our study area (approx. 30% of the greatest length in our study area) and we used the inverse of the HSM as a resistance surface. We rescaled values in five discrete resistance categories (i.e., 1, 25, 50, 75, 100) (Boyle et al. 2017) based on the percentile values distribution of the HSM map, where higher values corresponded to higher resistance. The buffer area was used in order to remove the effects of high current densities in the proximity of the node placement (Koen et al. 2014). Afterwards, we randomly placed 100 focal nodes on the edge of the buffer (Koen et al. 2014). We ran the algorithm in a pairwise mode, and after the analysis, the buffer was removed.
Through the multiscale approach we were able to assess patterns comparing roadkill sites with random locations, partially verifying predictions (i) and (ii). Indeed, in FVG the roadkill sites of golden jackals were influenced by ecological macroscale metrics, i.e., (i) habitat suitability, connectivity and habitat fragmentation, as well as by microscale elements (metrics), such as (ii) the distance from the Slovenian source population, the presence of guardrails and/or fences and the road type. We believe that the statistical significances found in our study are strongly connected with the spatial distribution of the species, as highlighted by the roadkill locations. However, we are aware that some potentially explanatory variables may be overlooked, thus representing one of the main limits of our study.
Our model highlighted the role of habitat suitability and connectivity on roadkill risk. As stated above, ecological modelling has been increasingly used on roadkill studies, as it provides crucial ecological information on the studied species (Santos et al. 2013; Girardet et al. 2015; Fabrizio et al. 2019a). In our analysis, higher roadkill risk was related to higher values of suitability and connectivity, i.e., within or nearby highly permeable areas. This might be explained mainly by the clustered roadkill sites, as most of them were located within the Karst area and/or not far from rivers (Fig. 3). Therefore, golden jackals may be subject to road mortality during daily displacements, as well as when they use roads as feeding sites, scavenging on road-killed carcasses (Prosser et al. 2008; Akrim et al. 2019). This is particularly true in areas where the overall habitat connectivity is very low (i.e., in lowlands or mountainous areas) and only few dispersal routes are present (e.g., rivers). Moreover, the Karst represents a risky area as a result of several factors, with higher densities of the species compared to FVG overall, suitable areas facilitating the movements of individuals and the presence of high speed limits and high traffic volume roads may enhance roadkill within this area.
With their great capacity for dispersal and large home-ranges some carnivore species are either behaviourally or spatially affected by habitat fragmentation, especially in relation to road density. Watabe and Saito (2021) showed that the night-time activity of the red fox (Vulpes vulpes), the racoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) and the Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus) was significantly higher on forestry roads with high vehicle-passing frequency compared to those with lower frequency, highlighting the potential trade-off effects produced by roads and vehicular transit on carnivore behaviour. Other studies revealed that despite felids being well adapted to life in urban areas, bobcats (Lynx rufus) and ocelots (Leopardus pardalis) are particularly sensitive to habitat fragmentation, as roadkill risk increased markedly as a consequence of increased road-crossing events (Poessel et al. 2014; Schmidt et al. 2020). In the case of the golden jackal, we calculated that higher mortality risk was associated with higher habitat fragmentation values (expressed through the landscape division index) which in turn was linked to a higher proportion of roads and human settlements, as well as higher habitat connectivity values. This may be linked to the evidence that the golden jackal may use forest patches near human settlements (Giannatos et al. 2005; Markov 2012), i.e., highly fragmented areas.
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