Ungulate-vehicle crashes peak a month earlier than 38 years ago due to global warming

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F44994575%3A_____%2F23%3A10001552" target="_blank" >RIV/44994575:_____/23:10001552 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41320/23:97116 RIV/00216224:14310/23:00131156

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-023-03558-5" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-023-03558-5</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-023-03558-5" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10584-023-03558-5</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Ungulate-vehicle crashes peak a month earlier than 38 years ago due to global warming

Original language description

Global change has manifested itself as climate warming in Central Europe in recent decades. Average daily air temperatures increased by an average of 2 degrees C between 1982 and 2018. Air temperature changes have affected the timing of the vegetation periods (phenophases) and have also influenced the behaviour of animals. We worked with data on wildlife-vehicle crashes (WVC) recorded by the Czech Police in the period 1982-2019. Three peaks can usually be observed (spring, summer, and autumn) in the WVC time series. Eighty percent of these records involved roe deer (Capreolus capreolus). Such a high ratio allowed us to assume that any significant changes detected in WVC will be predominantly related to roe deer. We discovered that roe deer mortality on roads occurs earlier at present in the spring than in the past. The spring peak has shifted almost a month to the beginning of the year compared to the situation 38 years ago. The changes in the respective summer and autumn peaks were not statistically significant. The results suggest the effect of climate change on roe deer behaviour through increasing air temperatures and shifting vegetation phenophases. Thus, an earlier onset of deer activity associated with territory delineation and expected higher movement activity can be indirectly determined by the analysis of the WVC time series. The observed shift in the spring WVC peak in the roe deer model reveals a shift in ungulate behavioural patterns that is not evident from other biological data and thus surprisingly offers a suitable study framework for determining the impacts of environmental change on animals.

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

10509 - Meteorology and atmospheric sciences

Project

<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000803" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000803: Advanced research supporting the forestry and wood-processing sector´s adaptation to global change and the 4th industrial revolution</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Climatic Change

ISSN

0165-0009

e-ISSN

1573-1480

Volume of the periodical

176

Issue of the periodical within the volume

7

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

1-18

UT code for WoS article

001010340400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85163209245