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Bird and bat species' global vulnerability to collision mortality at wind farms revealed through a trait-based assessment.
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- Positive and negative impacts of electrical infrastructure on animal biodiversity: A systematic review.Oecologia · 2025Pooled it
- Bird and bat species' global vulnerability to collision mortality at wind farms revealed through a trait-based assessment.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Pooled it
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- Smart flying in challenging skies: How Red Kites adjust wind turbine micro- and meso-avoidance across weather and experience.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Establishing baselines for echolocating bat activity at wind farms in mainland Southeast Asia.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- The trans-european catchment area of common noctule bats killed by wind turbines in France.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Advancing bat monitoring: Assessing the impact of unmanned aerial systems on bat activity.PloS one · 2025Article
- Prioritizing landscapes for mitigating the impacts of onshore wind farms on multidimensional waterbird diversity in the Yellow Sea.Current zoology · 2024Article
- Toward solving the global green-green dilemma between wind energy production and bat conservation.Bioscience · 2024Article
- Geographic source of bats killed at wind-energy facilities in the eastern United States.PeerJ · 2024Article
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- Distribution of common pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) activity is altered by airflow disruption generated by wind turbines.PloS one · 2024Article
- A species-level trait dataset of bats in Europe and beyond.Scientific data · 2023Article
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- Reply to Pérez-García et al.: Perfect is the enemy of good.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Priority areas for conservation alone are not a good proxy for predicting the impact of renewable energy expansion.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Factors influencing wind turbine avoidance behaviour of a migrating soaring bird.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
Mitigation of anthropogenic climate change involves deployments of renewable energy worldwide, including wind farms, which can pose a significant collision risk to volant animals. Most studies into the collision risk between species and wind turbines, however, have taken place in industrialized countries. Potential effects for many locations and species therefore remain unclear. To redress this gap, we conducted a systematic literature review of recorded collisions between birds and bats and wind turbines within developed countries. We related collision rate to species-level traits and turbine characteristics to quantify the potential vulnerability of 9538 bird and 888 bat species globally. Avian collision rate was affected by migratory strategy, dispersal distance and habitat associations, and bat collision rates were influenced by dispersal distance. For birds and bats, larger turbine capacity (megawatts) increased collision rates; however, deploying a smaller number of large turbines with greater energy output reduced total collision risk per unit energy output, although bat mortality increased again with the largest turbines. Areas with high concentrations of vulnerable species were also identified, including migration corridors. Our results can therefore guide wind farm design and location to reduce the risk of large-scale animal mortality. This is the first quantitative global assessment of the relative collision vulnerability of species groups with wind turbines, providing valuable guidance for minimizing potentially serious negative impacts on biodiversity.
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