- Title
- Factors influencing the spatial patterns of vertebrate roadkill in South Africa: The Greater Mapungubwe Transfrontier Conservation Area as a case study
- Creator
- Collinson, Wendy J
- Creator
- Parker, Daniel M
- Creator
- Bernard, Ric T F
- Creator
- Reilly, Brian K
- Creator
- Davies-Mostert, Harriet T
- Date Issued
- 2019
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158320
- Identifier
- vital:40172
- Identifier
- https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1111/aje.12628
- Description
- Few studies have investigated the factors that influence roadkill occurrence in developing countries. In 2013, we monitored a 100‐km section of the road (comprising the R572 and R521 regional highways and the D2662) that pass through the Greater Mapungubwe Transfrontier Conservation Area in South Africa, to assess the possible factors influencing roadkill. Over a period of 120 days, and across the three ecological seasons, we recorded 981 roadkills (rate = 0.08 roadkill/km/day) from four vertebrate taxonomic groups. We generated predictive models of roadkill from one combined data set that considered eight variables identified from the literature as potential correlates of roadkill. The model that included the distance of the fence from the road, habitat type adjacent to the road, and the presence of a hill in the road (i.e., elevation) or a bank on the side of the road best explained roadkill occurrence.
- Format
- 13 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- African Journal of Ecology
- Relation
- Collinson, W.J., Parker, D.M., Bernard, R.T., Reilly, B.K. and Davies‐Mostert, H.T., 2019. Factors influencing the spatial patterns of vertebrate roadkill in South Africa: The Greater Mapungubwe Transfrontier Conservation Area as a case study. African Journal of Ecology, 57(4), pp.552-564
- Relation
- African Journal of Ecology volume 57 number 4 552 564 May 2019 1365-2028
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Bernard, Ric T F (Prof Emeritus)
Parker, Daniel M (Prof)
SDG 15. Life On Land
RU Department of Zoology and Entomology
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