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Table 2 Numbers of road-killed amphibians and reptiles found from March 2014–October 2015 on monitored sections of municipal roads (26 km), cycle paths (2.5 km), agricultural roads (61 km) and interurban roads (8 km)

From: Amphibian and reptile road-kills on tertiary roads in relation to landscape structure: using a citizen science approach with open-access land cover data

Species

Municipal road

Cycle path

Agricultural road

Interurban road

Rk

Rk km−1

Rk

Rk km−1

Rk

Rk km−1

Rk

Rk km−1

Green toad (Bufo viridis)

45

1.73

1

0.4

69

1.13

4

0.5

Common toad (Bufo bufo)

4

0.15

0

0

50

0.82

1

0.13

Agile frog (Rana dalmatina)

1

0.04

0

0

3

0.05

1

0.13

Tree frog (Hyla arborea)

0

0

0

0

1

0.02

0

0

Grass snake (Natrix natrix)

7

0.27

1

1

43

0.7

9

1.13

Lizards (Lacertidae)

1

0.04

0

0

4

0.07

1

0.13

Smooth snake (Coronella austriaca)

0

0

0

0

3

0.05

0

0

Blind worm (Anguis fragilis)

0

0

0

0

2

0.03

1

0.13

 

58

2.23

2

0.8

175

2.87

17

2.13

  1. Numbers of road-killed animals (Rk) and road-killed animals per kilometer (RK km−1)