When the Roads Went Quiet: What Pikas Taught Us About Wildlife Responses to the Anthropause

This blog post is provided by Yangheshan Yang and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Unexpected asymmetric Qinghai-Tibetan wildlife dietary response to anthropause: rapid initial shifts and a slow return”, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. In their study, Yang and colleagues show the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the diets of roadside pika populations on the northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. We did … Continue reading When the Roads Went Quiet: What Pikas Taught Us About Wildlife Responses to the Anthropause

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COVID-19 lockdowns and citizen science data reveal species traits most vulnerable to mortality on roads

This blog post is provided by Sarah Raymond and tells the #StoryBehindthePaper for the paper ‘The impact of the COVID-19 lockdowns on wildlife-vehicle collisions in the UK’, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. In their study, Sarah and colleagues utilize the reduction of traffic due to COVID-lockdowns and citizen science data on roadkill to study which traits make species vulnerable to being … Continue reading COVID-19 lockdowns and citizen science data reveal species traits most vulnerable to mortality on roads