Table 2.

Descriptive statistics of explanatory variables for highway segments with and without water deer roadkill events.

Variables	Mean ± sd		p-value (t-test)
	Highway segments with roadkill events (N = 1,986)	Highway segments without roadkill events (N = 8,088)
Suitability of water deer	0.62 ± 0.09	0.58 ± 0.11	<0.001
Temperature	−0.15 ± 2.03	0.38 ± 2.28	<0.001
Predator species richness	0.80 ± 0.73	0.99 ± 0.73	<0.001
Tree cover (%)	0.21 ± 0.204	0.28 ± 0.26	0.010
Deforestation level (%)	0.16 ± 1.04	0.10 ± 0.57	<0.001
Urban area (%)	39.35 ± 36.42	28.98 ± 34.22	<0.001