TY - CHAP
TI - Impacts of Wind Energy Development on Bats: Implications for Conservation
AU - Arnett, E
AU - Baerwald, E
T2 - Bat Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation
AB - At a time of growing concern over the rising costs and long-term environmental impacts from the use of fossil fuels, wind energy has become an increasingly important sector of the electrical power industry. However, large numbers of bats are being killed at utility-scale wind energy facilities, and these fatalities raise important concerns about cumulative impacts of proposed wind energy development on bat populations. We discuss our current state of knowledge on patterns of bat fatalities at wind facilities, present new information on cumulative fatalities in the USA and Canada, and present findings from mitigation studies. Given the magnitude and extent of fatalities of bats worldwide, the conservation implications of understanding and mitigating bat fatalities at wind energy facilities are critically important.
DA - 2013/07//
PY - 2013
SP - 435
EP - 456
PB - Springer
UR - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-4614-7397-8_21
U1 - Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership
LA - English
KW - Wind Energy
KW - Displacement
KW - Collision
KW - Avoidance
KW - Attraction
KW - Bats
ER -