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- Conference Paper:
Peraza and Horne
Knowledge gaps exist in the collective effort to quantify risks and impacts of fish-turbine interactions. Empirical data and modeling studies have characterized stages of fish approach and pass through hydrokinetic turbines, but there has not been a comprehensive model that quantifies conditional occurrence probabilities of fish approaching and then interacting with a turbine in sequential…
- Report:
International Finance Corporation
The International Finance Corporation (World Bank), European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and German Development Bank (KfW) have published a Good Practice Handbook on the topic of Post-construction Fatality Monitoring (PCFM) for birds and bats, which is accompanied by an automated…
- Thesis:
Isaksson
As climate change becomes a more pressing reality in the 21st century, governments around the world are setting targets to meet electricity production demand from renewable energy sources such as tidal streams. However, tidal stream environments are also important habitats for marine wildlife, including seabirds. Risk of collision and habitat displacement are the major negative effects of…
- Journal Article:
Fielding
Research on potentially adverse effects of wind farms is an expanding field of study and often focuses on large raptors, such as golden eagles, largely because of their life history traits and extensive habitat requirements. These features render them sensitive to either fatality (collision with turbine blades) or functional habitat loss (avoidance through wariness of turbines). Simplistically…
- Journal Article:
Leroux et al.
Mitigating anthropogenic climate change involves deployments of renewable energy worldwide, including wind energy, which can cause significant impacts on flying animals. Bats have highly contrasted responses to wind turbines (WT), either through attraction increasing collision risks, or avoidance leading to habitat losses. However, the underlying mechanisms remain largely unknown despite the…
- Report:
OES-Environmental
The guidance documents are intended to be available for regulators and advisors as they carry out their decision-making and for developers and consultants as they prepare consenting and licensing applications. This stressor-specific document presents an overview of the scientific information that is known for collision risk. It is…
- Conference Paper:
Malzer et al.
In this paper, we report on a newly developed 34 GHz radar system and its field application in the wind energy testing site WINSENT on the Swabian Alb (Germany). The envisaged sensor system addresses the early detection of birds for a bird-friendly wind turbine operation. In this way, wind turbines could be adaptively controlled to reduce the collision risk of endangered species. Besides the…
- Journal Article:
Duriez et al.
The impact of bird mortality by collision on windfarms has often been evaluated at the individual level, but rarely at the population level. The Lesser kestrel Falco naumanni is an endangered short-lived migratory raptor, susceptible to collision with wind turbines. We evaluated the impacts of windfarm turbine collisions on the demography of the largest lesser kestrel population in…
- Journal Article:
May
With the rapid acceleration of wind energy development there is a growing need to meet the consequences this has for the natural environment. Failing to mitigate environmental impacts is an important cause of conflict in wind energy projects, leading to costly delays in planned wind energy development. It is therefore of the utmost importance to identify effective solutions and measures to…
- Report:
Bat Conservation International
More than half of the 154 known bat species across North America are at risk of severe population decline in the next 15 years, according to the first-ever State of the Bats Report published by the North American Bat Conservation Alliance (NABCA), a multinational coalition from the United States, Mexico, and Canada, including Bat Conservation International. Experts believe that as many…
- Journal Article:
Sanderson et al.
Semidiurnal tidal currents can exceed 5 ms−1 in Minas Passage, Bay of Fundy, where a tidal energy demonstration area has been designated to generate electricity using marine hydrokinetic turbines. The risk of harmful fish–turbine interaction cannot be dismissed for either migratory or local fish populations. Individuals belonging to several fish populations were acoustically tagged…
- Journal Article:
Fockert et al.
Hydraulic structures can be a promising place for tidal energy extraction due to the high flow velocities, easy access to the power grid and easy access for maintenance. However, quantification of the impacts of a tidal power plant in a hydraulic structure is not straight forward. In 2015 a pilot plant consisting of an array of five Tocardo tidal turbines was installed in the Eastern Scheldt…
- Report:
Vignali et al.
Large soaring raptors vs wind turbines development in the Swiss Alps is an applied research project launched by the Division of Conservation Biology, University of Bern, in autumn 2014. The project’s main objectives were to develop spatially-explicit models that may assist governmental agencies and non-governmental associations in their decision-making process regarding the suitability of…
- Report:
Johnson
The anticipated build-out of renewable energy development over the next 10 to 15 years is staggering, presenting both challenges and barriers in the path toward mitigating climate change through an energy transition that simultaneously facilitates wildlife conservation. Solving this immense challenge will require work across sectors to identify and evaluate solutions. These proceedings…
- Journal Article:
Lonsdorf et al.
As wind energy expands to achieve the United States' net zero emission goals, compensatory mitigation will be required to offset negative effects on birds and bats. The golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) is particularly susceptible to collision with wind turbines, but only 1 option for offsetting mortalities has been approved by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service despite many…
- Report:
Jakle
Wind energy is one of the fastest-growing forms of electricity development in the United States, and installed wind energy capacity in Wyoming has increased fifteenfold in the past decade. Wind is regarded as a “green energy” resource because it does not directly produce carbon dioxide emissions or other air pollutants, uses minimal amounts of water, and is renewable. However, like other forms…
- Journal Article:
Hale et al.
Projected global growth in wind energy development has the potential to negatively affect wildlife populations, and yet the indirect effects of wind turbines on wildlife (e.g., displacement from otherwise suitable habitat) remain largely understudied, compared with investigations of direct effects (e.g., collision mortality). Thus, over a 3-yr period (2009–2011), we used 2 alternative survey…
- Report:
Fox
This deliverable provides a critical analysis of management measures that can be used to mitigate or manage the potential environmental effects of wave and tidal energy developments. The aim of this deliverable is to critically analyse the environmental mitigation and monitoring measures that have been used to date in completed or planned wave and tidal energy projects. This will provide…
- Report:
Fox
This deliverable provides a summary of key knowledge gaps regarding the potential environmental effects of wave and tidal energy development and an overview of consenting risks relevant to the sectors. This deliverable is informed by a number of key existing resources, such as ORJIP Ocean Energy’s Forward Look and OES Annex IV’s State of the Science report, which highlight knowledge…
- Journal Article:
Pedrana et al.
Ruddy-headed goose Chloephaga rubidiceps has a migratory population that overwinters mainly in the Pampas region, Argentina, and breeds in Southern Patagonia. This population has decreased considerably, with less than 800 individuals remaining to date. We conducted the first assessment on the influence of environmental and anthropogenic-impact (wind farms and high-voltage networks)…
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