SP ATIALLY EXPLICIT SIMULATIONS INDICATE THAT ROADKILL HAS CLEAR CONSEQUENCES FOR GENETIC DIVERSITY

We used individual-based, spatially explicit simulations to explore the effects of roadkill and road avoidance on wildlife genetic diversity. Genetic evidence is mounting that roads have detectible effects on the genetics of many types of wildlife populations (Balkenhol & Waits, 2009). However, most of what we know of road effects concerns genetic fragmentation without regard to its mechanism(s), which can be road avoidance, roadkill, or both.