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Land-Use Pattern, Urbanization, And Deer–Vehicle Collisions In Alabama, Anwar Hussain, James B. Armstrong, David B. Brown, John Hogland

Human–Wildlife Interactions

With the rise in deer–vehic^le collisⁱons across the United States, the associated costs also have risen. Increasingly, however, researchers are learning that these collisions are not a random phenomena but ^follow a syst^ematic pattern. Bu_ilding on this in_sight, we explored the role of county characteri^stics in influencing the pattern and incidence of w^hite-tailed deer- (Odocoileus virginianus) related auto c^ollisions. Using county level data from 1994 to 2003 in Alabama, we tested several data models with the above mentioned facto^rs …