Figure 5
From: Elevated wildlife-vehicle collision rates during the COVID-19 pandemic
Relationship between changes (Δ) in traffic volume and changes in wildlife-vehicle collisions across the United States. Changes in traffic volume between July 2018–June 2019 and July 2019–June 2020 across the fifty states and Washington, D.C. were not predictive of concurrent changes in wildlife-vehicle collisions (F1,49 = 1.94, P = 0.17), consistent with the existence of compensatory effects of wildlife road use in response to lower traffic volume. Blue points correspond to decreases and red to increases, with darker colors signifying greater relative changes.
