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{"title":"Land-use change alters specialist bee diet and drives body size declines","authors":"Sarah E. Anderson, Philip Hahn, Gabriela Gonzalez, Rachel E. Mallinger","doi":"10.1007/s10980-024-01893-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-024-01893-1","url":null,"abstract":"<h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Context</h3><p>Land-use change can cause decreases in plant abundance and richness and the replacement of wild plants with domesticated plants. Changes in plant community composition disrupt mutualistic plant-pollinator interactions with ecological consequences for plants and pollinators, and especially for specialists that rely on certain plants.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Objectives</h3><p>We assessed the effects of land-use change and subsequent shifts in plant communities on resource collection and body size for a bee pollinator, <i>Habropoda laboriosa</i>, a purported specialist of blueberries and related Ericaceae plants.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Methods</h3><p>We collected <i>Habropoda laboriosa</i> across a gradient of land use in north-central Florida including agricultural, natural, and urban habitats. We assessed landcover and floral community composition at each site and related these to bee body size (intertegular distance) and resource use (proportion host plant pollen and pollen diversity collected).</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Results</h3><p>Host plant pollen collection and bee body size generally responded similarly to the landscape, both increasing with habitats containing host plants (blueberry farms and natural habitat) but decreasing with urban development. However, host pollen collection and bee body size responded in opposite ways to overall cropland in the landscape, with cropland negatively affecting body size despite positively affecting host pollen collection, indicating other factors associated with cropland might drive declines in bee body size.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Conclusions</h3><p>Land-use change can adversely affect bee diet and body size, and changes in diet likely contribute to changes in body size over time. Specialists are particularly at risk for negative impacts of land-use change due to their inability to shift plant hosts.</p>","PeriodicalId":54745,"journal":{"name":"Landscape Ecology","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141255769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Relative effects of arable land-use, farming system and agri-environment schemes on landscape-scale farmland bird assemblages","authors":"Laura Bosco, Aleksi Lehikoinen, Markus Piha, Tuomas Seimola, Juha Tiainen, Johan Ekroos","doi":"10.1007/s10980-024-01906-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-024-01906-z","url":null,"abstract":"<h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Context</h3><p>Farmland biodiversity has been declining because of agricultural intensification and landscape simplification. Many farmland birds breeding in non-crop habitats use arable land as their feeding habitat (and vice versa) and understanding habitat composition and configuration at the landscape scale is important for their conservation.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Objectives</h3><p>We explored the relationship between farmland bird densities and land-use characteristics at a landscape-scale (mean size 235 ha) to reveal the most important land-use elements driving avian farmland abundance.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Methods</h3><p>We used bird territory mapping from 36 study landscapes across Finland to study relationships between densities of total farmland birds, open field species, edge species, farmyard species, and Farmland Bird Indicator (FBI) species, and multiple descriptors of the composition and configuration of the study landscape mosaics, reflecting the full range of available crop types, farmland structures, non-crop habitat types, and soil type.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Results</h3><p>Densities of farmland birds increased with greater areas of leys and pastures, subsidized grasslands, habitat diversity, and farmyards with animals, and those effects were consistently stronger compared to effects of non-crop habitats. Positive effects of the relative area of leys and pastures in the landscape was most often consistent in the species-specific models, whereas species-level responses to other landscape characteristics were idiosyncratic, reflecting the variety of the species’ ecologies and habitat requirements.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Conclusions</h3><p>We demonstrate that overall habitat diversity, and habitat elements like subsidized grasslands, pastures, and farmsteads with animal production support higher bird diversity at the level of landscape mosaics. Our results suggest that studies based on field-scale study units need to be complemented with landscape-scale studies to reveal a holistic understanding of land-use intervention impacts on farmland birds.</p>","PeriodicalId":54745,"journal":{"name":"Landscape Ecology","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141195117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"New criteria for sustainable land use planning of metropolitan green infrastructures in the tropical Andes","authors":"María José LaRota-Aguilera, Emmanuel Zapata-Caldas, Oscar Buitrago-Bermúdez, Joan Marull","doi":"10.1007/s10980-024-01911-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-024-01911-2","url":null,"abstract":"<h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Context</h3><p>Urbanization is rapidly increasing worldwide, with about 60% of the global population currently residing in cities and expected to reach 68% by 2050. In Latin America's tropical Andes region, managing these changes poses challenges, including biodiversity loss and vulnerability to climate change.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Objectives</h3><p>This study assesses urban growth and agricultural intensification impacts on the ecological functionality of metropolitan green infrastructures and their capacity to provide ecosystem services using a landscape sustainability and sociometabolic approach. Specifically, it aims to identify landscape configurations promoting socio-ecological sustainability amidst rapid urbanization.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Methods</h3><p>A landscape-metabolic model (IDC) was applied to evaluate the interactions between land use changes and ecosystem functions in the metropolitan region of Cali.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Results</h3><p>Agricultural intensification and industrialization, coupled with uncontrolled urban growth, have significantly transformed the landscape, posing threats to its sustainability. The prevailing biocultural landscapes hold a substantial potential to provide essential ecosystem services to the metropolis. The IDC offers an approach that utilizes a land cover map and agricultural production/metabolism data to calculate an indicator closely related to ecosystem services and multifunctionality.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Conclusions</h3><p>The IDC model stands out for efficiently capturing landscape dynamics, providing insights into landscape configuration and social metabolism without extensive resource requirements. This research highlights the importance of adopting a landscape-metabolic and green infrastructure framework to guide territorial policies in the tropical Andes and similar regions. It stresses the need for informed land use planning to address challenges and leverage opportunities presented by biocultural landscapes for regional sustainability amidst rapid urbanization and agricultural expansion.</p>","PeriodicalId":54745,"journal":{"name":"Landscape Ecology","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141166909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Time-lag effects of habitat loss, but not fragmentation, on deadwood-dwelling lichens","authors":"Aino Hämäläinen, Lenore Fahrig","doi":"10.1007/s10980-024-01910-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-024-01910-3","url":null,"abstract":"<h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Context</h3><p>Landscape habitat amount is known to increase biodiversity, while the effects of habitat fragmentation are still debated. It has been suggested that negative fragmentation effects may occur with a time lag, which could explain inconsistent results. However, there is so far no empirical support for this idea.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Objectives</h3><p>We evaluated whether habitat amount and fragmentation at the landscape scale affect the species density of deadwood-dwelling lichens, and whether these effects occur with a time lag.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Methods</h3><p>We surveyed deadwood-dwelling lichens in woodland key habitats in two regions in northern Sweden, and modelled their species density as a function of past (1960s) and present (2010s) habitat amount (old forest area) and fragmentation (edge density) in the surrounding landscapes.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Results</h3><p>Present habitat amount generally had weak positive effects on lichen species density. Positive effects of the past habitat amount were stronger, indicating a time lag in habitat amount effects. Habitat fragmentation effects were generally weak and similar whether fragmentation was measured in the past or the present landscapes, indicating no time lag in fragmentation effects.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Conclusions</h3><p>We found a time lag effect of habitat amount, but not fragmentation. This result is not consistent with suggestions that time lags explain the mixed observations of fragmentation effects. Time-lag effects of habitat amount suggest that the studied lichen communities face an extinction debt. Conservation should therefore prioritize increasing the amount of old forest, for example by creating forest reserves, to maintain the current lichen diversity. More generally, our results imply that studies examining only the present habitat amount risk under-estimating its importance.</p>","PeriodicalId":54745,"journal":{"name":"Landscape Ecology","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141173543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Behavioral state-dependent selection of roads by guanacos","authors":"Mitchell W. Serota, Pablo A. E. Alarcón, Emiliano Donadio, Arthur D. Middleton","doi":"10.1007/s10980-024-01909-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-024-01909-w","url":null,"abstract":"<h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Context</h3><p>Widespread globally, roads impact the distribution of wildlife by influencing habitat use and avoidance patterns near roadways and disrupting movement across them. Wildlife responses to roads are known to vary across species; however within species, the response to roads may depend on the season or the individual’s behavioral state.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Objectives</h3><p>We assess the movement behavior and space use of the most widespread large herbivore in Patagonia, the guanaco (<i>Lama guanicoe).</i> We estimated the preference or avoidance to paved or unpaved roads (the proximity effect) and the preference or avoidance to traverse them (the crossing effect).</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Methods</h3><p>Using GPS collar data, we combined Hidden Markov Models with an integrated step selection analysis to segment guanaco movement trajectories into individual behaviors and test for differences in road effects on movement.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Results</h3><p>We found that guanacos display distinct movement responses to different types of roads depending on their behavioral state. Guanacos select for proximity to paved roads while foraging, but against them when traveling. Yet, guanacos select for unpaved roads when traveling. Despite the selection for proximity to paved roads, guanacos avoid crossing them, irrespective of their behavioral state.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Conclusion</h3><p>Our findings offer significant implications for guanaco distribution and management across Patagonia. The selection for roads strongly influences the distribution of guanacos, which could concentrate grazing in some areas while freeing others. Despite potential benefits such as increased vegetation near roadsides, increased association with roads while foraging may result in an ecological trap. Finally, the strong aversion to crossing paved roads raises concerns about habitat loss and connectivity.</p>","PeriodicalId":54745,"journal":{"name":"Landscape Ecology","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141166677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Correction: Inferring future changes in gene flow under climate change in rivers capes: a pilot case study in fluvial sculpin","authors":"Souta Nakajima, Hiroaki Suzuki, Makoto Nakatsugawa, Ayumi Matsuo, Shun K. Hirota, Yoshihisa Suyama, Futoshi Nakamura","doi":"10.1007/s10980-024-01904-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-024-01904-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54745,"journal":{"name":"Landscape Ecology","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141166939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From past habitats to present threats: tracing North American weasel distributions through a century of climate and land use change","authors":"Amanda E. Cheeseman, David S. Jachowski, Roland Kays","doi":"10.1007/s10980-024-01902-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-024-01902-3","url":null,"abstract":"<h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Context</h3><p>Shifts in climate and land use have dramatically reshaped ecosystems, impacting the distribution and status of wildlife populations. For many species, data gaps limit inference regarding population trends and links to environmental change. This deficiency hinders our ability to enact meaningful conservation measures to protect at risk species.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Objectives</h3><p>We investigated historical drivers of environmental niche change for three North American weasel species (American ermine, least weasel, and long-tailed weasel) to understand their response to environmental change.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Methods</h3><p>Using species occurrence records and corresponding environmental data, we developed species-specific environmental niche models for the contiguous United States (1938–2021). We generated annual hindcasted predictions of the species’ environmental niche, assessing changes in distribution, area, and fragmentation in response to environmental change.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Results</h3><p>We identified a 54% decline in suitable habitat alongside high levels of fragmentation for least weasels and region-specific trends for American ermine and long-tailed weasels; declines in the West and increased suitability in the East. Climate and land use were important predictors of the environmental niche for all species. Changes in habitat amount and distribution reflected widespread land use changes over the past century while declines in southern and low-elevation areas are consistent with impacts from climatic change.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Conclusions</h3><p>Our models uncovered land use and climatic change as potential historic drivers of population change for North American weasels and provide a basis for management recommendations and targeted survey efforts. We identified potentially at-risk populations and a need for landscape-level planning to support weasel populations amid ongoing environmental changes.</p>","PeriodicalId":54745,"journal":{"name":"Landscape Ecology","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140883017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Short-term evolution pattern in salt marsh landscapes: the importance of physical constraints","authors":"Liming Xue, Tianyou Li, Xiuzhen Li, Yuxin Bi, Lin Su, Yuanhao Song, Wenzhen Zhao, Jianzhong Ge, Qing He, Benwei Shi","doi":"10.1007/s10980-024-01898-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-024-01898-w","url":null,"abstract":"<h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Context</h3><p>Salt marsh landscapes at the land-sea interfaces exhibit contrasting spatiotemporal dynamics, resulting from varying physical constraints that limit new marsh establishment. The expansion of salt marsh landscapes towards the sea or their retreat towards the land is determined by patch-level changes, relying on the balance of power between the intrinsic biota traits and external physical disturbances.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Objectives</h3><p>Examine how marsh dynamics respond to physical constraints, and clarify the pathway from coupled physical processes involving hydrodynamic forces, sediment transport, and morphological changes to rapid patch evolution and landscape changes.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Methods</h3><p>We defined and distinguished four types of marsh changes based on patch proximities from five-month drone images in two typical marsh pioneer zones of the Yangtze Estuary, China: outlying expansion, edge expansion, infilling expansion, and retreat. Hydrodynamics and sediment transport were synchronously measured and compared near the two marsh edges, and morphological changes were generated by drone-derived digital elevation models (DEMs).</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Results</h3><p>We identified distinct seasonal patterns of net marsh expansion at the accretion-prone site, that is: Net marsh expansion started from the outlying expansion in spring, followed by edge expansion in summer and infilling expansion in autumn. However, at the erosion-prone site that experienced high bed shear stress, low sediment availability and high seaward sediment transport, we only observed limited infilling and edge expansion in spring. This suggests that the potential for long-distance patch formation beyond the initial marsh edges is diminished in areas subjected to intensive physical disturbances.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Conclusions</h3><p>Patch evolution dynamics in response to site-specific physical constraints drive state differentiation of salt marsh landscape changes. Consequently, the heterogeneous evolution in salt marsh landscapes should be taken into account in restoration practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":54745,"journal":{"name":"Landscape Ecology","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140883013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A family of process-based models to simulate landscape use by multiple taxa","authors":"Emma Gardner, Robert A. Robinson, Angela Julian, Katherine Boughey, Steve Langham, Jenny Tse-Leon, Sergei Petrovskii, David J. Baker, Chloe Bellamy, Andrew Buxton, Samantha Franks, Chris Monk, Nicola Morris, Kirsty J. Park, Silviu Petrovan, Katie Pitt, Rachel Taylor, Rebecca K. Turner, Steven J. R. Allain, Val Bradley, Richard K. Broughton, Mandy Cartwright, Kevin Clarke, Jon Cranfield, Elisa Fuentes-Montemayor, Robert Gandola, Tony Gent, Shelley A. Hinsley, Thomas Madsen, Chris Reading, John W. Redhead, Sonia Reveley, John Wilkinson, Carol Williams, Ian Woodward, John Baker, Philip Briggs, Sheila Dyason, Steve Langton, Ashlea Mawby, Richard F. Pywell, James M. Bullock","doi":"10.1007/s10980-024-01866-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-024-01866-4","url":null,"abstract":"<h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Context</h3><p>Land-use change is a key driver of biodiversity loss. Models that accurately predict how biodiversity might be affected by land-use changes are urgently needed, to help avoid further negative impacts and inform landscape-scale restoration projects. To be effective, such models must balance model realism with computational tractability and must represent the different habitat and connectivity requirements of multiple species.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Objectives</h3><p>We explored the extent to which process-based modelling might fulfil this role, examining feasibility for different taxa and potential for informing real-world decision-making.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Methods</h3><p>We developed a family of process-based models (*4pop) that simulate landscape use by birds, bats, reptiles and amphibians, derived from the well-established poll4pop model (designed to simulate bee populations). Given landcover data, the models predict spatially-explicit relative abundance by simulating optimal home-range foraging, reproduction, dispersal of offspring and mortality. The models were co-developed by researchers, conservation NGOs and volunteer surveyors, parameterised using literature data and expert opinion, and validated against observational datasets collected across Great Britain.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Results</h3><p>The models were able to simulate habitat specialists, generalists, and species requiring access to multiple habitats for different types of resources (e.g. breeding vs foraging). We identified model refinements required for some taxa and considerations for modelling further species/groups.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Conclusions</h3><p>We suggest process-based models that integrate multiple forms of knowledge can assist biodiversity-inclusive decision-making by predicting habitat use throughout the year, expanding the range of species that can be modelled, and enabling decision-makers to better account for landscape context and habitat configuration effects on population persistence.</p>","PeriodicalId":54745,"journal":{"name":"Landscape Ecology","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140883023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Crossings and collisions – Exploring how roe deer navigate the road network","authors":"Johanna Märtz, Falko Brieger, Manisha Bhardwaj","doi":"10.1007/s10980-024-01897-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-024-01897-x","url":null,"abstract":"<h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Context</h3><p>To investigate the major impact of roads on wildlife, most studies focus on hot-spots of wildlife-vehicle collisions (WVC) to identify areas in need of mitigation measures. However, on road stretches where the frequency of WVC is low, a question arises: is this because those locations are 'safe’ places for wildlife to cross the road with little risk of collisions; or is it because individuals avoid approaching and crossing the road in these locations?</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Objectives</h3><p>In this study, we addressed this gap by evaluating how roe deer crossings are related to WVC risk across the road network.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Methods</h3><p>We used 56 076 WVC locations between 2013 and 2017 to predict the spatiotemporal risk zones in response to environmental, road-related and seasonal predictors using Species-Distribution Modelling (SDM). We compared the predictive WVC risk to the location of 20 744 road crossing by 46 GPS-collared roe deer individuals.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Results</h3><p>We found that the risk of WVC with roe deer tends to be higher on federal roads that are present in a density of approximate 2.2 km/km² and surrounded by broad-leafed forests and demonstrate that SDMs can be a powerful tool to predict the risk of WVC across the road network. Roe deer crossed roads more frequently in high WVC risk areas. Temporally, the number of WVC changed throughout the year, which can be linked to roe deer movement patterns rather than landscape features. Within this study, we did not identify any road segments that were a complete barrier to roe deer movement.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Conclusions</h3><p>The absence of complete barriers to roe deer movement detected in the present study, might be due to the low spatial variation of the landscape, coupled with the high individual variation in movement behaviour. By applying our approach at greater spatial scales and in other landscape contexts, future studies can continue to explore the potential barrier impacts of roads on landscape connectivity. Exploring the relationship between crossing activity and collision risk can improve one’s ability to correctly identify road stretches that require mitigation measures to improve connectivity versus reduce collisions.</p>","PeriodicalId":54745,"journal":{"name":"Landscape Ecology","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140828910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}