Road mortality risk of a protected Felid across fragmented and heterogeneous landscapes in Central Europe: collision risk map and R code

Published: 26 November 2025| Version 1 | DOI: 10.17632/6t2jmvnhhk.1
Contributors:
, Johanna Märtz, Malte Götz, Saskia Jerosch, Olaf Simon, Johannes Lang, Teresa Nava, Sabrina Streif, Christine Thiel-Bender, Tomma Lilli Middelhoff, Ole Anders, Sönke Twietmeyer, Francesca Cagnacci, Carsten Dormann, Simone Ciuti, Joe Premier, Manisha Bhardwaj, Marco Heurich

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Material related to the manuscript 'Road mortality risk of a protected Felid across fragmented and heterogeneous landscapes in Central Europe' submitted to the Journal of Environmental Management. It contains: - R code used for the data preparation, analysis, and display of results; - Predicted probability of wildcat-vehicle collision occurrence on the complementary log-log scale ranging between 0 and 1, in each 100 x 100 m pixel of the raster grid covering the road network in Germany. - Multivariate environmental similarity surface (MESS) extrapolation uncertainty map, quantifying the degree of extrapolation to novel environments (i.e. extrapolation required for predictions in areas not included in the training data). Pixels with negative values (MESS < 0) represent environments that differ more strongly from those in the training data and might result in unreliable predictions. Wildcat is a protected felid (Bern Convention and the EU Habitats Directive), and raw data of wildcat-vehicle collision locations cannot be shared.

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Wildlife Ecology, Road Transportation, Wildlife Conservation

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