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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
2011
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- Wildlife vertebrate mortality in roads from Santa Fe Province, Argentina Andrés M. Attademo Paola M. Peltzer Rafael C. Lajmanovich Gustavo Elberg Celina Junges Laura C. Sanchez Agustín Bassó Biología Santa Fe Argentina Road kills vertebrate Mortality of vertebrates was monitored on 2 roads (National Road 168, NR168 and Provincial Road 1, PR1) in Santa Fe Province (Argentina) from October 2007 to August 2008. These roads differed in traffic volume and surrounding landscape management conditions. We also investigated the influence of environmental variables (mean monthly air temperature and monthly total rainfall) on the incidence of road kills. Two people monitored the roads on foot (1 000-m line transects), 3 times a month (36 samples per road). We found 2 024 vertebrate road killed specimens representing 61 species (7 amphibians, 15 reptiles, 32 birds, and 7 mammals). The toad Rhinella fernandezae was the most frequently killed species (n = 1307, 64.57%). NR168 had a higher incidence of vertebrate road kills, particularity for amphibians, whereas birds had a higher incidence of road kills on PR1. We found a positive correlation between precipitation and temperature with vertebrate road kills on PR1. We suggest that vertebrate road mortality is a very serious problem for the conservation of the biodiversity in Santa Fe Province-Argentina, therefore implementing mitigation measures will be necessary. 2011 artículo científico 1870-3453 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=42520988018 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=425 Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad application/pdf Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad (México) Num.3 Vol.82