Aliens on the Road: Surveying Wildlife Roadkill to Assess the Risk of Biological Invasion.

ABSTRACT: 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

SUBMITTER: Viviano A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10294960 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature