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Behera, S.; Borah, J.
Mammal mortality due to road vehicles in Nagarjunasagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve, Andhra Pradesh, India
2010 Mammalia (74): 427-430
Growth of human population and the resulting expansion of anthropogenic pressures into different wildlife habitat areas have increased conflicts between wildlife and human in recent decades. One area of particular concern is wildlife-vehicle collisions, which often results in mortality of wildlife species. The occurrence of dead animals killed on the roads is thus a common phenomenon. Road-kill counts have been used to determine mortality caused by vehicles on wildlife populations (Newmark et al. 1996, Romin and Bissonette 1996) and as an index of abundance for mammals across seasons (Davies et al. 1987) and years (Hicks 1993). Roads are known to cause mortality of animals due to accidents with vehicular traffic, habitat loss due to deforestation, affect animal movement, cause change in animal behavior, and cause ecological effects such as fragmentation (Fahrig et al. 1995, Goosem 1997, Forman and Alexander 1998, Trom-bulak and Frisswell 2000, Daveley and Stouffer 2001, Ser-rano et al. 2002).
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