Context‐dependent effects on spatial variation in deer‐vehicle collisions

摘要: Identifying factors that contribute to the risk of wildlife-vehicle collisions (WVCs) has been a key focus wildlife managers, transportation safety planners and road ecologists for over three decades. Despite these efforts, few generalities have emerged which can help predict occurrence WVCs, heightening uncertainty under conservation, management decisions are made. Undermining this general understanding is use study area boundaries incongruent with major biophysical gradients, inconsistent data collection protocols among areas species-specific interactions roads. We tested extent predicting deer-vehicle (DVCs) were five distributed 11,400-km2 region in Canadian Rocky Mountains. In spite our system-wide on same genus (i.e., Odocoileus hemionus O. virginianus), delineation along ...