An Evaluation of Odor Repellent Effectiveness in Prevention of Wildlife-Vehicle Collisions

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14310/18:00102077

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301479717309568" target="_blank" >http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301479717309568</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.09.081" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.09.081</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

An Evaluation of Odor Repellent Effectiveness in Prevention of Wildlife-Vehicle Collisions

Original language description

Wildlife-vehicle collisions (WVC) amount to 11 % of all registered traffic crashes in the Czech Republic causing, apart from numerous deaths and serious injuries to animals, property damage and injuries to car passengers. Odor repellents have the potential to lower the overall number of WVC and allow animals to cross roads at the same time. We tested the effectiveness of odor repellent preparation in prevention of WVC. 18 places were selected on the Czech road network where WVC were concentrated on the basis of traffic crash data. Control sections on the same road segments were also delimited in order to keep the traffic intensities constant. We applied a Before-After-Control-Impact (BACI) study design to control not only the effect of the measures but also the expected natural variations in wildlife populations over time. Data were compared before and after odor repellent installations. Wildlife carcass gathering was carried out during the spring and autumn. We also used the police crash database to supplement carcass data when no field works were carried out. 201 killed mammals (roe deer and wild boars) were identified in total over 47 months. We applied a Bayesian approach as only a limited numbers of WVC were available. A WVC decrease between 26 – 43 % can be expected on the treated road sections. These numbers are, however, up to three-times lower than those claimed by producers of odor preparations.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Environmental Management

ISSN

0301-4797

e-ISSN

1095-8630

Volume of the periodical

205

Issue of the periodical within the volume

C

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

209–214

UT code for WoS article

000415781600021

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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