Roadkill Patterns on Workdays, Weekends and Long Weekends: Anticipating the Implications of a Four-Day Work Week by Linas Balčiauskas, Andrius Kučas, Laima Balčiauskienė

“…The highest occurrences were on main roads, while regional roads had the fewest incidents. …”
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Lockdown’s Silver Lining? Different Levels of Roadkill during the COVID-19 Times in Lithuania by Linas Balčiauskas, Jos Stratford, Andrius Kučas, Laima Balčiauskienė

“…During these months, collisions with mammals on the A14 main road were reduced by 75–90%. However, there was a significant increase in the number of roadkills in urban areas, resulting in the total number of mammal–vehicle and roe deer–vehicle collisions in 2020 and 2021 being higher than expected based on long-term trends. …”
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Impact of Road Fencing on Ungulate–Vehicle Collisions and Hotspot Patterns by Andrius Kučas, Linas Balčiauskas

“…Lower rates of UVC increase occurred on higher category (main) roads, forming sparser road networks and characterized by the highest AADT. …”
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The Diversity of Roadkilled Semi-Aquatic Mammals Depends on Registration Effort by Linas Balčiauskas, Laima Balčiauskienė, Jos Stratford

“…However, for all these species, registration effort (number of times the route was driven, this being 300–400 on the most investigated routes) was the main factor, with more registrations being on the small number of best-sampled main roads. As two of these species, American mink and muskrat, are invasive species in EU, while otter is protected in most of the countries, registrations of their roadkills should be enhanced (using targeted efforts by hunters or citizen scientists for example) in order to obtain a better approximation of the roadkilled numbers of these species and thus be able to use this knowledge in species management.…”
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