No clear effect of odour repellents on roe deer behaviour in the vicinity of roads

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<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41320%2F20%3AN0000076" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41320/20:N0000076 - isvavai.cz</a>

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RIV/44994575:_____/20:N0000020 RIV/60460709:41330/20:N0000077 RIV/60460709:41320/20:85277 RIV/60460709:41330/20:85277

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://bioone.org/journals/wildlife-biology/volume-2020/issue-4/wlb.00744/No-clear-effect-of-odour-repellents-on-roe-deer-behaviour/10.2981/wlb.00744.full" target="_blank" >https://bioone.org/journals/wildlife-biology/volume-2020/issue-4/wlb.00744/No-clear-effect-of-odour-repellents-on-roe-deer-behaviour/10.2981/wlb.00744.full</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2981/wlb.00744" target="_blank" >10.2981/wlb.00744</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

No clear effect of odour repellents on roe deer behaviour in the vicinity of roads

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Ungulate-vehicle collisions pose a traffic safety issue as well as wildlife-conservation issues in many countries. While fences are recommended as reliable safety measures for motorways and other high-traffic volume roads, no generally accepted measures of the same efficiency are available for secondary roads. Odour repellents are applied in many central European countries, but contradictory results are available concerning their efficiency. We tested the effect of odour repellents on both a crossing frequency and the presence near roads of six individuals of roe deer over a period of five months (April-August 2019). The odour repellents were installed along two secondary roads, and along two semi-open habitats (forest-meadow and forest-arable land) alternately, in several phases. Two hypotheses were tested. The first one focused on the change in animal presence close to the profiles where the odours were applied, while the second hypothesis concerned a change in the number of crossings of the same profiles. The results demonstrate that no clear effect of odour repellents on roe deer behaviour in both hypotheses were obtained. Apart from the obtained results, we discuss the importance of the methodology. We conclude that this kind of study design is extremely sensitive to a number of factors with a potentially negative influence on the course of the study design

Název v anglickém jazyce

No clear effect of odour repellents on roe deer behaviour in the vicinity of roads

Popis výsledku anglicky

Ungulate-vehicle collisions pose a traffic safety issue as well as wildlife-conservation issues in many countries. While fences are recommended as reliable safety measures for motorways and other high-traffic volume roads, no generally accepted measures of the same efficiency are available for secondary roads. Odour repellents are applied in many central European countries, but contradictory results are available concerning their efficiency. We tested the effect of odour repellents on both a crossing frequency and the presence near roads of six individuals of roe deer over a period of five months (April-August 2019). The odour repellents were installed along two secondary roads, and along two semi-open habitats (forest-meadow and forest-arable land) alternately, in several phases. Two hypotheses were tested. The first one focused on the change in animal presence close to the profiles where the odours were applied, while the second hypothesis concerned a change in the number of crossings of the same profiles. The results demonstrate that no clear effect of odour repellents on roe deer behaviour in both hypotheses were obtained. Apart from the obtained results, we discuss the importance of the methodology. We conclude that this kind of study design is extremely sensitive to a number of factors with a potentially negative influence on the course of the study design

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

10613 - Zoology

Projekt

Výsledek vznikl pri realizaci vícero projektů. Více informací v záložce Projekty.

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

WILDLIFE BIOLOGY

ISSN

0909-6396

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

2020

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

4

Stát vydavatele periodika

DK - Dánské království

Počet stran výsledku

12

Strana od-do

1-12

Kód UT WoS článku

000611060500015

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85100372389