ArticleRoyal Society open science2022
Vulnerability of avian populations to renewable energy production.
Article in Royal Society open science, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Balancing land use for conservation, agriculture, and renewable energy.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Underestimated Fatalities of a Cryptic Avian Species of Conservation Concern at Wind Energy Facilities in California, USA.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Impacts of Solar Energy Development On Breeding Birds in Desert Grasslands In South Central New Mexico.Environmental management · 2025Article
- Climate change and California's terrestrial biodiversity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Review
- Incidental eagle carcass detection can contribute to fatality estimation at operating wind energy facilities.PloS one · 2023Article
- Game bird carcasses are less persistent than raptor carcasses, but can predict raptor persistence dynamics.PloS one · 2023Article
- Vulnerability of avian populations to renewable energy production.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
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Abstract
Renewable energy production can kill individual birds, but little is known about how it affects avian populations. We assessed the vulnerability of populations for 23 priority bird species killed at wind and solar facilities in California, USA. Bayesian hierarchical models suggested that 48% of these species were vulnerable to population-level effects from added fatalities caused by renewables and other sources. Effects of renewables extended far beyond the location of energy production to impact bird populations in distant regions across continental migration networks. Populations of species associated with grasslands where turbines were located were most vulnerable to wind. Populations of nocturnal migrant species were most vulnerable to solar, despite not typically being associated with deserts where the solar facilities we evaluated were located. Our findings indicate that addressing declines of North American bird populations requires consideration of the effects of renewables and other anthropogenic threats on both nearby and distant populations of vulnerable species.
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