Activity of forest specialist bats decreases towards wind turbines at forest sites

JS Ellerbrok, A Delius, F Peter… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Worldwide, wind turbines are increasingly being built at forest sites to meet the goals of
national climate strategies. Yet, the impact on biodiversity is barely understood. Bats may be …

[HTML][HTML] Wind turbines without curtailment produce large numbers of bat fatalities throughout their lifetime: A call against ignorance and neglect

CC Voigt, K Kaiser, S Look, K Scharnweber… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Bats are protected by national and international legislation in European countries, yet many
species, particularly migratory aerial insectivores, collide with wind turbines which …

Vulnerability of avian populations to renewable energy production

TJ Conkling, HB Vander Zanden… - Royal Society …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Renewable energy production can kill individual birds, but little is known about how it affects
avian populations. We assessed the vulnerability of populations for 23 priority bird species …

[图书][B] The Sun, Energy, and Climate Change

E Hossain - 2023 - Springer
The Sun, Energy & Climate Change is not a conventional climate change book, nor is it a
typical energy book. There is a deep correlation between energy and climate change, and …

Bat mortality in wind farms of southern Europe: temporal patterns and implications in the current context of climate change

MM Salguero, A De la Cruz, AR Muñoz… - Biodiversity and …, 2023 - Springer
The expansion of renewable energy production, especially wind power, is one of the
cornerstones of our strategy for mitigating climate change. However, there is growing …

[HTML][HTML] Declining pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) population productivity caused by woody encroachment and oil and gas development

VM Donovan, JL Beck, CL Wonkka, CP Roberts… - Global Ecology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Conservation is increasingly focused on preventing losses in species' populations before
they occur. Tracking changes in demographic parameters that can impact a population's …

A Computational Methodology for Assessing Wind Potential

N Christakis, I Evangelou, D Drikakis, G Kossioris - Energies, 2024 - mdpi.com
This paper introduces an innovative and eco-friendly computational methodology to assess
the wind potential of a location with the aid of high-resolution simulations with a mesoscale …

Toward solving the global green–green dilemma between wind energy production and bat conservation

CC Voigt, E Bernard, JCC Huang, WF Frick… - …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Wind energy production is growing rapidly worldwide in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions. However, wind energy production is not environmentally neutral. Negative …

Wind energy production in forests conflicts with tree-roosting bats

C Reusch, AA Paul, M Fritze, S Kramer-Schadt… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Many countries are investing heavily in wind power generation, 1 triggering a high demand
for suitable land. As a result, wind energy facilities are increasingly being installed in forests …

[PDF][PDF] Windkraft und Fledermausschutz im Wald–eine kritische Betrachtung der Planungs-und Zulassungspraxis

M Veith, C Lindemann, A Kiefer… - Evidenzbasiertes …, 2023 - library.oapen.org
Besonders betroffen sind wandernde Fledermausarten, die teilweise Zugstrecken von>
2000 km zurücklegen (Voigt et al. 2015; Frick et al. 2017; Richardson et al. 2021) …