Exploring patterns and trends of snake roadkill in the new world: research gaps and mitigation strategies

This README file was generated on 2024-01-12 by Daniel Faustino Gomes# General information## Dataset TitleExploring patterns and trends of snake roadkill in the new world: research gaps and mitigation strategies## Date of Data Collection2024## Contributors*Daniel Faustino Gomes:Departamento de Vertebrados, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.*Cecília Bueno:Universidade Veiga de Almeida, Campus Tijuca, 20271-901 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.*Paulo Passos:Departamento de Vertebrados, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.## OverviewThis supplemental dataset, an integral part of our research paper, contains data crucial to understanding the patterns and trends in roadkills of New World snakes discovered in our study. It includes two Excel documents - General data (data, species and landscape use) and Studies used for data collection (Authors, Title and DOI).## Data Formats* **Excel Files:*** **.xlsx/.xls**: Utilized for organizing and presenting data summaries and metadata.# Supplementary File 1.## File FormatExcel File (.xlsx)## Content OverviewThis file presents information such as:first tab - Authors, year of publication, country of publication, size of the highway, type of pavement, lanes roads, traffic volume, maximum speed, mitigation measure for section, sampling time (in months), sampling time, monitoring means, sampling speed, sampling, sampling period in datails; sampling period (morning; afternoon; evening), sampled group, total number (carcass), snakes, N species, Hotspots-hotmoments, near the conservation unit and landscape categories.second tab - list of species present in the 91 studies surveyed, in addition to conservation status (IUCN).third tab - classification of land use according to the authors.# Supplementary File 2.Excel File (.xlsx)## Content OverviewThis file presents survey of studies (N=91), description of: authors + title + DOI## Purpose and Utility* These files contain a broad survey of studies on roadkill snakes in Latin America, with the aim of understanding and filling knowledge gaps.<br><br>