TY - JOUR
TI - Comparison of Recent Oil and Gas, Wind Energy, and Other Anthropogenic Landscape Alteration Factors in Texas Through 2014
AU - Pierre, J
AU - Wolaver, B
AU - Labay, B
AU - LaDuc, T
AU - Duran, C
AU - Ryberg, W
AU - Hibbitts, T
AU - Andrews, J
T2 - Environmental Management
AB - Recent research assessed how hydrocarbon and wind energy expansion has altered the North American landscape. Less understood, however, is how this energy development compares to other anthropogenic land use changes. Texas leads U.S. hydrocarbon production and wind power generation and has a rapidly expanding population. Thus, for ~47% of Texas (~324,000 km2), we mapped the 2014 footprint of energy activities (~665,000 oil and gas wells, ~5700 wind turbines, ~237,000 km oil and gas pipelines, and ~2000 km electrical transmission lines). We compared the footprint of energy development to non-energy-related activities (agriculture, roads, urbanization) and found direct landscape alteration from all factors affects ~23% of the study area (~76,000 km2), led by agriculture (~16%; ~52,882 km2). Oil and gas activities altered 
DA - 2018/05//
PY - 2018
VL - 61
IS - 5
SP - 805
EP - 818
UR - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00267-018-1000-2
DO - 10.1007/s00267-018-1000-2
LA - English
KW - Wind Energy
KW - Land-Based Wind
KW - Physical Environment
ER -