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. 2017 Jun 26;17:24. doi: 10.1186/s12898-017-0134-z

Table 4.

Conditional probabilities of road-killed common toads and green toads for all land cover classes [P(E|B)]

CLC code Land cover class H(E) H(E1) H(E)+ H(E1) P(E∩B) P(B) P(E|B)
324 Transitional woodland shrub 0.088 0.000 0.088 0.000 0.000 0.998
142 Sport and leisure facilities 0.296 0.023 0.319 0.002 0.002 0.924
243 Land principally occupied by agriculture, with significant areas of natural vegetation 3.181 2.081 5.262 0.016 0.027 0.606
311 Broad-leaved forest 2.147 2.998 5.145 0.011 0.026 0.416
211 Non-irrigated arable land 23.681 34.538 58.220 0.121 0.299 0.406
112 Discontinuous urban fabric 16.534 24.576 41.110 0.085 0.210 0.404
411 Inland marshes 0.088 0.180 0.269 0.000 0.001 0.327
312 Coniferous forest 0.862 1.831 2.694 0.004 0.014 0.319
221 Vineyards 20.752 47.589 68.340 0.106 0.351 0.303
111 Continuous urban fabric 0.334 0.854 1.188 0.002 0.006 0.281
242 Complex cultivation patterns 1.742 4.950 6.692 0.009 0.034 0.262
313 Mixed forest 0.138 2.094 2.232 0.001 0.011 0.063
231 Pastures 0.157 2.734 2.891 0.001 0.015 0.054
121 Industrial or commercial units 0.000 0.552 0.552 0.000 0.003 0.000

Proportion of each land cover class per section containing road-killed toads [H(E)] or not [H(E1)]. The probability of a road-killed toad on a certain land cover class [P(E∩B)] divided by the overall availability of this land cover class in the study area [P(B)] results in the conditional probability P(E|B). Land cover classes in descending order of P(E|B); the higher the P(E|B), the higher the probability of a road-kill on the specific land cover class