ScienceDaily (Oct. 24, 2012) —
Amphibians are the vertebrate group that is more likely to become roadkill in
Catalonia, even more so than reptiles, mammals and birds. This is the case
according to an international team of scientists who have concluded that highly
protected areas are home to more cases of animal death on the roads.
Our network of roads is
considered one of the main threats to fauna survival. Researchers at the
universities of Barcelona (UB), Porto (Portugal) and Uppsala (Sweden) have
studied the number of vertebrate deaths on 820 kilometres of road in North
Eastern area of Spain and Portugal.
"The project consisted of
analysing the impact of the road network on fauna, leading to numerous studies
across the whole of Catalonia to record all specimens of roadkill found,"
as explained by Núria Garriga, researcher at the UB and lead author of the
study headed by Gustavo A. Llorente, a scientist at the same university.
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