Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 195(12)
Published: Nov. 16, 2023
Language: Английский
Joule, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown
Published: Jan. 1, 2025
Language: Английский
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BioScience, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 74(4), P. 240 - 252
Published: Feb. 21, 2024
Wind energy production is growing rapidly worldwide in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, wind not environmentally neutral. Negative impacts on volant animals, such as bats, include fatalities at turbines and habitat loss due land-use change displacement. Siting away from ecologically sensitive areas implementing measures are critical protecting bat populations. Restricting turbine operations during periods of high activity the most effective form mitigation currently available fatalities. Compensating for offsetting mortality often practiced, because meaningful offsets lacking. Legal frameworks prevent or mitigate negative bats absent countries, especially emerging markets. Therefore, governments lending institutions key reconciling with biodiversity goals by requiring sufficient environmental standards projects.
Language: Английский
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Journal of Applied Ecology, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 59(10), P. 2497 - 2506
Published: July 9, 2022
Abstract Worldwide, wind turbines are increasingly being built at forest sites to meet the goals of national climate strategies. Yet, impact on biodiversity is barely understood. Bats may be heavily affected by in forests, because many species depend ecosystems for roosting and hunting can experience high fatality rates turbines. We performed acoustic surveys 24 temperate forests low mountain ranges Central Germany monitor changes activity bats relation turbine proximity, rotor size, vegetation structure season. Call sequences were identified assigned one three functional guilds: open‐space, edge‐space narrow‐space foragers, latter mainly specialists. Based response behaviour towards open landscapes, we predicted decreasing bat sites, especially foragers. Vertical heterogeneity had a strong positive effect all bats, yet responses varied across foraging guilds. Activity foragers decreased over distances several hundred metres, with large rotors during mid‐summer months. The did not change distance or season, whereas open‐space increased close late summer. Synthesis applications . Forest specialist avoid metres. This avoidance was most apparent rotors. Since an important habitat these advise exclude diverse as potential consider compensation measures account degradation associated operation forests.
Language: Английский
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Biological Conservation, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 288, P. 110382 - 110382
Published: Nov. 28, 2023
Wind power is a rapidly growing source of energy worldwide. It crucial for climate change mitigation, but it also accelerates the degradation biodiversity through habitat loss and displacement wildlife. To understand extent reasons observations where no reported, we conducted systematic review birds, bats, terrestrial mammals. Eighty-four peer-reviewed studies onshore wind yielded 160 distinct distances, termed cases. For mammals, 63 %, 72 67 % cases respectively reported displacement. Cranes (3/3 cases), owls (2/2), semi-domestic reindeer (6/6) showed consistent on average up to 5 km. Gallinaceus birds km, in 7/18 show "no displacement". Bats were displaced 1 km 21/29 Waterfowl (6/7 raptors (24/30), passerines (16/32) waders (8/19) 500 m. Observations suggested result from methodological deficiencies, species-specific characteristics, conditions favorable certain species after development. Displacement-induced population decline could be mitigated by situating low-quality habitats, minimizing small-scale collisions, creating high-quality habitats compensate loss. This provides information distance thresholds that can employed design future projects. However, most assessed effects turbine towers <100 m high, while considerably larger turbines are being built today.
Language: Английский
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Frontiers in Marine Science, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 11
Published: May 3, 2024
Offshore wind energy development (OWED), while a key strategy for reducing carbon emissions, has potential negative effects to wildlife that should be examined inform decision making and adaptive management as the industry expands. We present conceptual framework guide long-term study of birds bats from OWED. This includes focus on exposure vulnerability determinants risk. For are exposed OWED, there three main interest may impact survival productivity: 1) collision mortality, 2) behavioral responses, including avoidance, displacement, attraction, 3) habitat-mediated prey populations. If these OWED cause changes in and/or breeding success (e.g., fitness), they have population-level consequences, population size structure. Understanding influence ecological drivers effect parameters can help disentangle impacts other stressors. use this theoretical summarize existing relevant knowledge identify current priority research questions (n=22) eastern United States, where large-scale is primarily planning early construction phase. also recommendations design further prioritization topics.
Language: Английский
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Landscape and Urban Planning, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 231, P. 104636 - 104636
Published: Dec. 9, 2022
Impacts of wind power on bats are usually evidenced by the recorded fatalities, while other impacts not well understood or considered during project planning. However, turbines may affect use surrounding habitats bats. Little is known about such impact, especially in European boreal biogeographical region. We studied consequences operating presence and activity forests. simultaneously monitored bat acoustic at 84 sampling sites placed 200 m intervals from 0 to 1.000 (2 recorders per distance class), over four months seven Finnish farms located forested habitats. Our results show higher 600 further for Eptesicus nilssonii, 800 Myotis spp. also saw an increase midsummer, which be due increased forest canopy cover short nights this time. These indicate a potential loss habitat quality around turbines, e.g., greater number open areas forests unfavourable certain species. This lower could indication active avoidance Furthermore, these first their kind They undeniable Finland, enforce requirement better consideration development projects Finland. Similarly, bats, that now must Europe. call investigation causative mechanisms observed effect, facilitate mitigation.
Language: Английский
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Diversity, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 14(5), P. 380 - 380
Published: May 11, 2022
Here, we address the question of if/to what extent human–wildlife conflict (HWC) can be reduced or mitigated by supra-regional even global approaches, whether case- and region-specific strategies are necessary. First, try to shift perspective from humans towards wildlife regard modern era (near) extinctions selected species as an ultimate expression HWC. We then reflect on legitimacy ecosystem comparisons beyond borders biogeographical regions—an important prerequisite for approaches. In following, present two case scenarios that exemplarily illustrate topic different perspectives: carnivore–livestock conflicts (classical view, human perspective) wind turbine-induced mortality bats (wildlife perspective, rarely regarded a form HWC). On this basis, develop framework enables approach, while adequately considering region-specificity. think globally valid generally approachable dimension defined, long there is natural link: in established monophyly orders Carnivora Chiroptera, i.e., representatives descending common ancestors, thus sharing ecological features. This relationship among all systematic group (specification “wildlife” concept) key development overarching strategy adjusted specific case.
Language: Английский
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PLoS ONE, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 19(5), P. e0303368 - e0303368
Published: May 31, 2024
The mechanisms underlying bat and bird activity peaks (attraction) or losses (avoidance) near wind turbines remain unknown. Yet, understanding them would be a major lever to limit the resulting habitat loss fatalities. Given that is strongly related airflows, we hypothesized airflow disturbances generated leeward (downwind) of operating turbines-via so-called wake effect-make this area less favorable for bats, due increased flight costs, decreased maneuverability possibly lower prey abundance. To test hypothesis, quantified Pipistrellus pipistrellus acoustically at 361 site-nights in western France June on longitudinal distance gradient from turbine circular azimuth incidence angle, calculated prevailing direction night. We show P. avoid area, as was detected than windward (upwind) relatively moderate high speeds. Furthermore, found response (attraction avoidance) depended angle area. These findings are consistent with hypothesis changes airflows around can impact way bats use habitats up least 1500 m turbines, thus should prompt consideration winds energy planning. Based evidence present here, recommend avoiding configurations involving installation between origin important such hedgerows, water woodlands.
Language: Английский
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Applied Energy, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 375, P. 124054 - 124054
Published: Aug. 7, 2024
Language: Английский
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Scientific Reports, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 14(1)
Published: July 24, 2024
Abstract Global expansion in wind energy development is a notable achievement of the international community’s effort to reduce carbon emissions during production. However, increasing number turbines have unintended consequences for migratory birds and bats. Wind turbine curtailment other mitigation strategies can fatalities, but improved spatial temporal data are needed identify most effective way volant species coexist. Mexican free-tailed bats ( Tadarida brasiliensis mexicana ) account large proportion known bat fatalities at facilities southwestern US. We examined geographic concordance between existing generation facilities, areas high potential amenable future deployment seasonally suitable habitat these used ecological niche modeling determine distribution each 4 seasons. multi-criteria GIS-based approach produce siting suitability map. identified seasonal locations with highest lowest species’ probability occurrence, providing explanation higher observed fall migration. Thirty percent 33,606 within US occurred highly bats, primarily west Texas. There also broad overlap Because this degree overlap, our results indicate that post-construction strategies, such as curtailing timing operations deterrents, would be more conservation than strategic new installations.
Language: Английский
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