Canid roadkills in Brazil: spatial and temporal patterns and effects of landscape structure and composition

• Grant number: 24/00174-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: July 01, 2024
• End date: June 30, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Ecology - Applied Ecology
• Principal Investigator: Francisco Voeroes Dénes
• Grantee: Gabriella da Costa Pereira
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IB). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The National Action Plans for the Conservation of Endangered Species (PANs) were created to organize and prioritize actions for the conservation of biodiversity and its natural environments (ICMBio, 2023). The present work, in partnership with ICMBio, focuses on the work front of Road Ecology of the PAN Canids, which encompasses four species of canids threatened with extinction in Brazil, to carry out temporal and spatial analyses involving the occurrences of road accidents and evaluate appropriate mitigation measures.