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Synanthropic species are species that have tendencies to compete well in urban environments. Urban environments have specific attributes that can allow certain species to thrive whilst others fail to compete. However, it must be defined what an urban environment is and what about it can affect the species in the area. This can be anything from abiotic factors to anthropic factors. One of the major factors however are roads, which can cause things such as habitat destruction as well as interference with natural habits of species. Looking at a series of six different roads split into natural, suburban, and urban environments it was found that a majority of the roadkill find their way into suburban environments. Although of the roadkill, small species took a larger 0.0019 percent of the total species in urban environments . This insinuates that species vary depending on the type of environment that is present.