Decreased traffic volume during COVID-19 did not reduce roadkill on fenced highway network in Japan

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly reduced human activities through city lock-downs and restricted traffic flows. It had been suggested that roadkill occurrences are strongly associated with traffic volume. I evaluated the association between traffic volume and roadkill during COVID-19, from Ma...

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Autor principal: Asari, Yushin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Japan 2021
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8606269/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11355-021-00487-2
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description The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly reduced human activities through city lock-downs and restricted traffic flows. It had been suggested that roadkill occurrences are strongly associated with traffic volume. I evaluated the association between traffic volume and roadkill during COVID-19, from March to May 2020, using 26,130 roadkill data points recorded from the highway network in Hokkaido from 2010 to 2020, Japan. Results showed that there was a significant positive correlation between roadkill numbers and traffic volume over the past decade. However, the roadkill during COVID-19 restricted human activity did not diminish, although traffic volume decreased during this period.
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spelling pubmed-86062692021-11-22 Decreased traffic volume during COVID-19 did not reduce roadkill on fenced highway network in Japan Asari, Yushin Landscape Ecol Eng Short Communication The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly reduced human activities through city lock-downs and restricted traffic flows. It had been suggested that roadkill occurrences are strongly associated with traffic volume. I evaluated the association between traffic volume and roadkill during COVID-19, from March to May 2020, using 26,130 roadkill data points recorded from the highway network in Hokkaido from 2010 to 2020, Japan. Results showed that there was a significant positive correlation between roadkill numbers and traffic volume over the past decade. However, the roadkill during COVID-19 restricted human activity did not diminish, although traffic volume decreased during this period. Springer Japan 2021-11-22 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8606269/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11355-021-00487-2 Text en © International Consortium of Landscape and Ecological Engineering 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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Decreased traffic volume during COVID-19 did not reduce roadkill on fenced highway network in Japan
title Decreased traffic volume during COVID-19 did not reduce roadkill on fenced highway network in Japan
title_full Decreased traffic volume during COVID-19 did not reduce roadkill on fenced highway network in Japan
title_fullStr Decreased traffic volume during COVID-19 did not reduce roadkill on fenced highway network in Japan
title_full_unstemmed Decreased traffic volume during COVID-19 did not reduce roadkill on fenced highway network in Japan
title_short Decreased traffic volume during COVID-19 did not reduce roadkill on fenced highway network in Japan
title_sort decreased traffic volume during covid-19 did not reduce roadkill on fenced highway network in japan
topic Short Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8606269/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11355-021-00487-2
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