@article{article_532723, title={Road kills of amphibian and reptile species in Edirne and Kırklareli Provinces of Turkey}, journal={Sinop Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Dergisi}, volume={4}, pages={109–121}, year={2019}, DOI={10.33484/sinopfbd.532723}, url={https://izlik.org/JA99NA63EZ}, author={Bülbül, Ufuk and Eroğlu, Ali İhsan and Kutrup, Bilal and Kurnaz, Muammer and Koç, Halime and Odabaş, Yasemin}, keywords={traffic,Testudo graeca,Dereköy,mortality,Enez}, abstract={<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;"> <span lang="en-gb" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;" xml:lang="en-gb">Many wild animals are exposed to
road-kills in the world. Amphibians and reptiles which live near the roads are
the most endangered groups among vertebrates related to the road-kills. However,
there are only few studies related road-kills of amphibians and reptiles in
Turkey. We recorded 23 individuals (6 amphibian individuals belonging to 2
species and 17 reptile individuals belonging to 9 species) exposed to
road-kills on the E87 highway on 18-22 June of 2016 in Kırklareli province
while we found 134 individuals (114 amphibian individuals belonging to 3
species and 20 reptile individuals belonging to 8 species) killed on the E90
highway on 22-25 June of the same year in Edirne province The individuals
killed more often belonged to <i>Pelophylax
ridibundus </i> and <i>Bufotes variabilis </i>
in Edirne province while the species more affected by road-kills were <i>Pelophylax ridibundus </i>, <i>Lacerta trilineata </i>, <i>Dolichophis caspius </i> and <i>Testudo
graeca </i> in Kırklareli province.  The
results of this short-term study show that there is a need for long-term
studies to show that amphibians and reptiles exposed to road-kills are very
common. </span> </p> <p> </p>}, number={2}