Roadkill Reports - Powered by Anecdata.org

Occurrence
Latest version published by The Community Environmental Health Laboratory at MDI Biological Laboratory on Apr 13, 2023 The Community Environmental Health Laboratory at MDI Biological Laboratory

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Description

About this project Animals never evolved to coexist with high-speed motor vehicles. Report your roadkill sightings to help identify high risk areas for wildlife! Project goal Identify problem spots where there are high numbers of collisions with wildlife. What participants do: Record the time, location, and species of roadkill you observe. Why roadkill? Animals never evolved to coexist with high-speed motor vehicles. Highways can alter habitat and isolate populations, prevent wildlife from moving freely, and place an undue mortality pressure on populations. Tracking the incidence of collisions with animals can help identify problem spots where steps can be taken to mitigate roadkill risk. How to participate: Note when and where you see roadkill. Share your observations here on Anecdata.org or using the Anecdata mobile app!

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 412 records.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Disney J, Bailey C, Anecdata.org Contributors, Taylor A, Garretson A (2023). Roadkill Reports - Powered by Anecdata.org. Version 1.1. The Community Environmental Health Laboratory at MDI Biological Laboratory. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.gbif.us/resource?r=roadkill-109&v=1.1

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is The Community Environmental Health Laboratory at MDI Biological Laboratory. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 053d3e84-a440-42ae-a8ab-acda381469bb.  The Community Environmental Health Laboratory at MDI Biological Laboratory publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation

Contacts

Jane Disney
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Associate Professor of Environmental Health
MDI Biological Laboratory
  • 159 Old Bar Harbor Rd.
04609 Bar Harbor
ME
US
Cait Bailey
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Systems Developer
MDI Biological Laboratory
  • 159 Old Bar Harbor Rd.
04609 Bar Harbor
ME
US
Anecdata.org Contributors
  • Originator
  • Data Contributors
Anecdata.org
Ashley Taylor
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Community Manager
MDI Biological Laboratory
  • 159 Old Bar Harbor Rd.
04609 Bar Harbor
ME
US
Alexis Garretson
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • User
  • Point Of Contact
  • Community Environmental Health Laboratory Manager
MDI Biological Laboratory
  • 159 Old Bar Harbor Rd.
04609 Bar Harbor
ME
US
Anecdata.org
  • Point Of Contact
Anecdata.org
Community Environmental Health Laboratory
  • Point Of Contact
  • Community Environmental Health Laboratory
MDI Biological Laboratory
  • 159 Old Bar Harbor Rd.
04609 Bar Harbor
ME
US

Geographic Coverage

United States

Bounding Coordinates South West [-1.406, -122.923], North East [48.591, 34.846]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Species Musca domestica

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2015-06-17 / 2023-03-03

Project Data

Anecdata is a free online citizen science platform developed by the Community Lab at the MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. Anecdata is used by hundreds of individuals and organizations to gather and access citizen science observations and provides a platform to easily collect, manage, and share their citizen science data. How Anecdata works: Project managers create projects, creating datasheets that participants fill out to share their observations. Participants join projects and use the Anecdata website or mobile app to share their observations with the project. Project data is now available for anyone to view and download!

Title Anecdata.org
Identifier Anecdata.org

The personnel involved in the project:

Cait Bailey
  • Principal Investigator
Ashley Taylor
  • Curator

Sampling Methods

What participants do: Record the time, location, and species of roadkill you observe.

Study Extent About this project Animals never evolved to coexist with high-speed motor vehicles. Report your roadkill sightings to help identify high risk areas for wildlife! Project goal Identify problem spots where there are high numbers of collisions with wildlife.

Method step description:

  1. How to participate: Note when and where you see roadkill. Share your observations here on Anecdata.org or using the Anecdata mobile app!

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 053d3e84-a440-42ae-a8ab-acda381469bb
https://ipt.gbif.us/resource?r=roadkill-109