道路基础设施和灵长类动物保护:引入全球灵长类动物道路杀伤数据库
Laura C Praill1,2, Timothy M Eppley3,4,5, Sam Shanee6,7
1Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford OX3 0BP, UK.
Animals : an open access journal from MDPI
|May 27, 2023
概括
道路扩建碎片化了息地,增加了灵长类动物在道路上被杀害的事件. 全球灵长类动物道路死亡数据库 (GPRD) 汇编了来自41个国家的2862条记录,以追踪这种野生动物与车辆碰撞的问题.
科学领域:
- 生态生态学 生态生态学
- 保护生物学 保护生物学
- 交通生态学 交通生态学
背景情况:
- 全球道路基础设施的扩张导致息地碎片化.
- 息地碎片化增加了野生动物与车辆碰撞 (WVC) 的频率.
- 灵长类动物特别容易受到WVC的影响,因为它们的息地越来越分散.
研究的目的:
- 建立全球灵长类动物道路杀伤事件数据库 (GPRD),这是最广泛的灵长类动物道路杀伤事件标准化集合.
- 记录来自各种来源的灵长类公路杀伤数据,包括科学文献,公民科学和媒体报道.
- 介绍GPRD的当前状态和收集方法.
主要方法:
- 从已发表的论文,未发表的报告,公民科学数据库,事报道,新闻和社交媒体中编制了灵长类动物道路杀伤数据.
- 记录的物种,精确的位置和日期 (年和月) 对于每个道路杀伤事件.
- 标准化数据收集,以创建一个全面和可用的数据库.
主要成果:
- 目前,GPRD中包含2862个单独的灵长类动物道路杀伤记录.
- 数据涵盖41个国家,突出显示了这一问题的全球性.
- 承认某些地区的数据可能不足.
结论:
- GPRD是了解道路对灵长类动物的影响的宝贵资源.
- 保护主义者和公民科学家的进一步贡献对于扩大数据库至关重要.
- 增强的数据将有助于识别高风险地区,并制定灵长类动物保护的缓解策略.
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