TY - JOUR
TI - Standardised and referenced acoustic monitoring reliably estimates bat fatalities at wind turbines: comments on 'Limitations of acoustic monitoring at wind turbines to evaluate fatality risk of bats'
AU - Behr, O
AU - Barre, K
AU - Bontadina, F
AU - Brinkmann, R
AU - Dietz, M
AU - Disca, T
AU - Froidevaux, J
AU - Ghanem, S
AU - Huemer, S
AU - Hurst, J
AU - Kaminsky, S
AU - Kelm, V
AU - Korner-Nievergelt, F
AU - Lauper, M
AU - Lintott, P
AU - Newman, C
AU - Peterson, T
AU - Proksch, J
AU - Roemer, C
AU - Schorcht, W
AU - Nagy, M
T2 - Mammal Review
AB - Voigt et al. (2021) provide a thorough analysis of the restrictions inherent to the estimation of bat abundance from acoustic surveys, and conclude that limitations of acoustic monitoring impede the reliable evaluation of bat fatalities at wind turbines. We argue that acoustic data recorded at the nacelle of wind turbines have been experimentally validated as a useful and appropriate measure of bat collisions. Therefore, acoustic data can be used to estimate bat fatalities at wind turbines, provided a referenced and standardised protocol for data acquisition and analysis is used.
DA - 2023/04//
PY - 2023
VL - 53
IS - 2
SP - 65
EP - 71
UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/mam.12310
DO - 10.1111/mam.12310
LA - English
KW - Wind Energy
KW - Collision
KW - Bats
KW - Birds
ER -