Trails of game crossing selected road sections in the Czech Republic

Bc. Adam Vacek

Diplomová práce

Abstract:

Wildlife migrates through landscape freely for many years, but in present its migration paths and ability are restricted by transport infrastructure. One of the results is the increasing number of wildlife vehicle collisions (WVC) every year.This Master thesis aims on mapping the game trails crossing selected road sections and gathering WVC data in 6 locations of Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. Road sections were selected based for occurence of higher numbers of WVC than is average. Mapping of trails and data gatheringof WVC were done in 2016 and 2017. Part of WVC data was provided by web application srazenazver.cz, administered by the Transport Research Centre, of the Ministry of Transport of the Czech Republic. Thesis output are maps of eachlocations with WVC recorded into the map.The hypothesis is that where there is higher density of trails, there is supposed more wildlife movement, thus higher chance for WVC occurrence at crossing with roads. According to available data it was not possible to prove or decline the hypothesis.

Keywords

wildlife movement, wildlife vehicle collision, road ecology, mapping

Jazyk práce: angličtina

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 18. 4. 2019

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Vedoucí: Ing. Zdeněk Keken, Ph.D.

Česká zemědělská univerzita v Praze

Fakulta životního prostředí

Magisterský studijní program / obor:
Inženýrská ekologie / Nature Conservation