Linking habitat composition, local population densities and traffic characteristics to spatial patterns of ungulate‐train collisions

The total length of railways worldwide exceeds 1 million kilometres and recent railway development directly impacts wildlife because of animal‐train collisions. Few studies, however, have analysed factors driving ungulate‐train collisions. We analysed over 3,500 ungulate‐train collisions including roe deer, red deer, wild boar, and moose collected in 2012–2015 in Poland. We compared train traffic characteristics (e.g. traffic intensity, speed,...