Life on the edge : hedgehog traffic victims and mitigation strategies in an anthropogenic landscape

This study focused on the most frequently recorded mammal species in road-kill surveys in western Europe: the hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus). Investigations were conducted in an anthropogenic landscape and had two major aims:to quantify the effects of traffic mortality at individual, population, and species levels, andto explore how the number of traffic victims could be reduced through changes in the landscape in areas adjacent to roads.The negative effects of roads and traffic were particularly clear at the individual level, and one could consider this reason enough to take mitigating action... Mehr ...