Road Ecology Center

@roadecology

Bringing together researchers and policy makers from ecology and transportation to design sustainable transportation systems.

Davis, CA
roadecology.ucdavis.edu
Joined March 2014
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  1. Apr 2

    If you use ride-hailing services, like Lyft and Uber, maybe consider switching to transit, bike/ped

    Studies by and others show that ride-hailing services like and increase city congestion by diverting use of public , , and . Learn more here:
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  2. Mar 29

    Not sure if is a thing, but thanks to for sharing this cute pig vid

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    Everything's terrible, so here's Paul the Pig putting away all his toys when his mom asks him too, because he's a good boy
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  3. Mar 28

    In another example of why its worth following . If you camera trap, you should too

    Impressive new paper showing range wide density estimates for jaguars from camera traps
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  4. Mar 28

    Check out the vid. This is why we work to reduce transportation harm to wildlife,

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    Meet P-65, a subadult female recently captured & collared in the central portion of the . We look forward to learning (from DNA) how she may be related to other lions and where she'll settle into a home range. Here she's returning to a covered-up deer carcass
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  5. Mar 28

    If you aren't going, you should. If you are going, good on you. See you in IENE 2018 and in the first shout out to , see you in California in Sept, '19

    There’s only one month to go until ANET 2018: Connecting Nature Connecting People. With a jam-packed program, interesting keynotes and plenty of opportunities for networking, you won’t want to miss it. Find out more:
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  6. Mar 28

    Unraveling the world's road systems should be all of our life's work. Many roads are excessive, duplicate the function of other roads, and will be less and less needed as we get rid of single-occupancy vehicles and embrace transit, bikes, and walking

    Creating infrastructure free zones around critical wildlife habitat can reduce the negative impact of roads on wildlife
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  7. Mar 27

    Another feedback cycle. Badgers are typically the #1 recorded roadkilled mammal by . Now they are tunneling to slow the carnage.

    A problem for man and beast – Emergency road closure due to a sinking badger sett.
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  8. Mar 27

    The list of various ways that transportation kills wildlife gets another update. Anyone keeping track?

    Litter kills wildlife along roadsides. Another item to add to the list.
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  9. Mar 26

    Please RT to help get international support to reduce roadkill of tigers, elephants and others

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  10. Mar 26

    If dirt, forest, ranch, and mining roads are included, the number of 600,000 ecosystem pieces is a vast under-estimate, by at least an order of magnitude

    Roads have sliced and diced Earth’s ecosystems into some 600,000 pieces. More than half of these are less than 1 square kilometre in size.
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  11. Mar 26

    This is why we at the road ecology center try so hard to keep animals off the road through research and education. These events are devastating for the animals and the drivers …

    En Alemania se hicieron pruebas con modelos de jabalí gigante para determinar el alto riesgo de una colisión con animales en las carreteras
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  13. Mar 23

    Very sad. Admittedly anthropomorphizing, bubt when is it more appropriate than with dead primates on a road. Roadkills of wild animals in the Ghats

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  14. Mar 23

    Sometimes the threats to comes from us: "activities such as p hacking, cherry picking, and Hypothesizing After Results are Known (HARKing), ... have been well documented in other fields including psychology and medicine." and now in ecology

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  15. Mar 23

    Roads are an important for hunters to gain access to wildlife. Many think of this as a benefit for hunter-gatherer societies. However, there is a flip-side. In many places in Africa, you can drive up to giraffes (<100 m) and other wildlife

    This is Sabrina Corgatelli, a big game 'hunter', who said that giraffes are 'very dangerous' animals.....SO SHE KILLS THEM!!! RT if you want a GLOBAL ban on NOW!!!
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  16. Mar 23

    Rare victory for holding the line on roadless areas

    Colombia scraps Amazon highway plans due to deforestation concerns ~
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  17. Mar 23

    Understanding wildlife behavior near roadways is a critical part of reducing impacts of the massive road systems through habitat

    Check out our latest research in assessing the physiological changes in bears crossing and near roadways and how they alter behavior to mitigate costs
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  18. Mar 23

    The California Roadkill Observation System () is the source of wildlife-vehicle collision data in CA. Students and others sometimes use these data to predict good locations for wildlife over-crossings. Here is Southern California

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  19. Mar 22

    Did you also know that staff have been directed to spray down "unoccupied" swallows nests (unocc. by swallows) under bridges a few years in advance of work on the bridge. Keeps the politics down when it comes time to work on the bridge.

    Did you know bats often use swallow’s nests to roost in? Think twice before removing & always under supervision of a qualified biologist. 🦇
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  20. Mar 22

    For first time ever, oil companies admitted that climate change is caused by human agency, including burning fossil fuels. Like tobacco companies and gun manufacturers before them, they take exception to being held liable for deadly use of their product

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