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Iberico Dillard
Emergency services personnel work at the scene of a passenger bus crash that killed 21 people and injured at least 15 others in Venice, Italy, on Tuesday night. Slow Press/LiveMedia/LaPresse via AP hide caption
In 2017, 16 people on a bus carrying Hungarian students died in an accident near the northern city of Verona. And in 2013, 40 people were killed in one of Italy's worst vehicle accidents when a bus plunged off a viaduct close to the southern city of Avellino.
Roadkill is so well studied because it can affect the persistence of animal populations [18,19,20], mainly by limiting dispersal possibilities and then disrupting metapopulations, thus triggering local extinction vortices [21,22,23]. Such extinctions are often a relevant issue also for economic reasons because, in some cases, they concern species providing valuable ecosystem services [24,25,26]. Furthermore, roadkill is so well studied because they represent a major and often overlooked issue for road safety, especially when involving large vertebrates [27,28,29].
Roadkill observations and even surveys are increasingly used to monitor and update species distribution, e.g., [30,31,32,33,34], by means of citizen science, e.g., [35,36,37]. Individual hobbyists and wildlife enthusiasts have greatly increased in the last 30 years, and the majority of them upload opportunistic records to online platforms [38,39,40], including projects on road mortality [35,41,42]. Similarly, the low cost of detecting and uploading roadkill to online databanks (e.g., iNaturalist, GBIF) has also been used to monitor biological invasions, particularly at early invasion stages [43,44,45]. Immediately after release or escape, invasive alien species are present in new areas at low densities, which may prevent their detection through standardised monitoring, therefore relying on accidental observations, such as roadkill as first detection [46,47,48]. For instance, in Central Italy, the monitoring of the invasive population of the Northern raccoon Procyon lotor started after the first detections of several roadkilled individuals [49]. Furthermore, given that often roadkilled individuals are juveniles in dispersal [50,51,52], the detection of invasive alien species may also provide evidence of the potential range of expansion of established populations [53,54,55].
Study area and roadkilled species during the fieldwork survey. On the left is the location of the study area (Central Italy, Tuscany). Roadkill surveys started in the village of Prata (Province of Grosseto) in the direction of Grosseto and then Siena (101 km). On the right is the number of individuals of each roadkilled species.
In order to test our first prediction (i.e., more introduced species in Mediterranean biomes), we used generalised linear mixed models (GLMMs; negative binomial error distribution and log link function) and evaluated their performance using Akaike Information Criterion (AIC). For each model, the response variable was the percentage of introduced species on the total of roadkilled species, considering the country of each retained study as a random factor. We compared all the possible univariate models, including the considered explanatory variables, with the full model and also the null model (i.e., only including the random factor). We selected the most supported model using AICc (i.e., AIC for small sample sizes) and calculated Akaike weights (wAICc) to estimate the relative support for every model (ranging from 0 to 1, with larger numbers indicating greater support; [88,89,90]). We also provided R2 for each considered model. Additionally, we repeated exactly the same AIC model selection of the same GLMMs, but this time implementing as a response variable the percentage of introduced species on the total of existing species.
Global literature review of roadkill studies. Country location of retained studies (N = 41). We retained articles focusing on the whole community of terrestrial vertebrates and including an explicit list of roadkilled species. For each considered country, we provided the percentage of introduced species on the total of roadkilled species.
Concerning our first hypothesis, the biome was one of the most relevant explanatory variables in both model selections. In fact, the univariate model including this factor obtained plausible support in the roadkill model selection (according to [90]) and was the only supported model in the all-species model selection (Table 1). Overall, in both model selections, the percentage of introduced species in Mediterranean and Temperate biomes was higher than in Tropical and Desert biomes (Figure 3). On the other hand, other variables were also supported in the roadkill model selection, especially the latitude, which was the best-supported model (Table 1; with more introduced species at higher latitudes, roughly corresponding to Mediterranean and Temperate biomes; Supplementary Material S3). The number of neighbouring countries obtained plausible support in the roadkill model selection (according to [90]), being the second supported model (Table 1; with more introduced species in island countries than in nations having neighbouring countries).
Percentage of introduced species in different biomes, including both the percentage of introduced species on the total of roadkilled species (circles) and on the total of existing species (triangles).
Factors affecting the percentage of introduced species on the total of roadkilled species (upper table) and the percentage of introduced species on the total of existing species (lower table), model ranks by AICs. The upper table shows the model selection for the roadkill dataset (i.e., literature review on roadkilled terrestrial vertebrates plus our own field data), whereas the lower table shows the model selection for the all-species dataset (i.e., literature review on introduced terrestrial vertebrates in different countries). K is the number of model parameters. ΔAICc is the relative difference between a given AIC value compared to the smallest AICc value. AICc weights (wAICc) indicate the relative support for every model (the weights of all the models in the candidate set have the sum of 1). Evidence ratio (ER) is the ratio of wAIC, comparing the best-supported model with every competing one. Model rank is provided only for the best-supported models. R2 is a measure of the global fit of each model. Into the model column, Nc are neighbouring countries.
Roadkill surveys usually represent a reliable information source regarding the common species that can be found in a given area [91,92,93], although remarkable exceptions have been described for species actively avoiding roads [21,94,95]. Nevertheless, invasive vertebrates are often generalist species able to use roads and roadsides as suitable habitats and to take advantage of the related resources (i.e., roadkilled carcasses, garbage; [96,97]), consequently paying the price of high roadkill rates [15,98,99]. Therefore, it is relatively safe to assume that alien species would be well represented in the roadkill records of a given area [34,100] and, consequently, that such data would be suitable for geographical analyses focused on biological invasions. According to this rationale, our analyses showed that the percentage of introduced species (on both the total of roadkilled species and the total of existing species) is higher in Mediterranean and Temperate biomes than in Tropical and Desert biomes. These findings confirm our prediction that the overall amount of introduced species is higher in the Mediterranean biome, as previously suggested by the available scientific literature [101,102,103]. However, the Temperate biome also suffered high levels of species introduction, especially in Central Europe and North America, both of which regions characterised by suitable climates for most vertebrate species and consequently also suitable for their invasions [73,104,105]. These biomes are more anthropised than others [106,107,108], probably because they are widely distributed in countries with early human presence, mostly in the Mediterranean Basin and, more generally, in Europe. In addition, early anthropization can be a major driver of the presence of established populations of introduced species, especially the paleo-introduced ones, such as the fallow deer Dama dama and the crested porcupine Hystrix cristata in our fieldwork area (e.g., [109,110]). Both the Mediterranean and Temperate biomes also include some of the countries with suitable latitudes (and consequently climates) for allowing growth and reproduction of introduced terrestrial vertebrates [72,73], such as Italy and Spain, but also USA and UK, with all of them providing published studies to our literature review.
The Mediterranean biome, spanning from coastal and interior portions of the USA, Mexico, Chile, South Africa, Australia and the Mediterranean Basin, is also recognised as one of the most imperilled in terms of biodiversity loss due to its sensitivity to biological invasions, land use and climate change [101,111,112]. In this biome, at least in the most sensitive areas such as national parks, monitoring roadkill should be a priority action, in order to detect conservation issues related to road impacts (see, for example, [113], but also [114,115] for examples in other biomes). Additionally, we showed here that these surveys can also provide valuable information about biological invasions, not only about cost-effective early detection in a given location (see a recent example regarding the American mink Neovison vison in Central Italy: [116]), but also to conduct geographical analyses and to estimate the percentage of common alien species in a given area. Government authorities and institutions (e.g., protected areas and environmental agencies) should include roadkill surveys in their long-term monitoring schemes, but citizen science can also be involved in collecting a remarkable amount of data [35,117,118]. Importantly, the use of ad hoc projects on online platforms (e.g., iNaturalist) may allow the collection of data throughout the years and from different sites [119,120,121] and to analyse temporal patterns of invasions. Finally, we would also highlight that less than 2% of roadkill studies focusing on all vertebrates (i.e., 40 on 2314) reported a full list of affected species, making it more difficult than expected to use this literature resource, so we would strongly recommend future roadkill studies to publish their species list (and data), in order to increase their interest and the possibility to be used and cited by other researchers.
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