Assessing Impacts of Wind-Energy Development on Nocturnally Active Bats and Birds

Author: Thomas Kunz, Edward Arnett, Brian Cooper, Wallace Erickson, Ronald Larkin, Todd Mabee, Michael Morrison, Dale Strickland, and Joseph SzewczakPublication: J. Wildlife ManagementYear Published: 2007 Our purpose is to provide researchers, consultants, decision-makers, and other stakeholders with guidance to methods and metrics for investigating nocturnally active birds and bats in relation to utility-scale wind-energy development.…

A Modeling Approach to Infer the Effects of Wind Farms on Landscape Connectivity for Bats

Author: Federica Roscioni, Hugo Rebelo, Danilo Russo, Maria Laura Carranza, Mirko Di Febbraro, Anna LoyPublication: Lanscape EcolYear Published: 2014 Little is known about the potentially disrupting effects of wind farms on the habitat connectivity of flying vertebrates at the landscape scale. We developed a regional-scale model to assess the wind farm impact on bat migration…