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ArticleEnvironmental management2025

Impacts of Solar Energy Development On Breeding Birds in Desert Grasslands In South Central New Mexico.

Aaron C Young, DeeAnne Meliopoulos, Martha J Desmond, David Daniel, Fitsum Abadi

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Article in Environmental management, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Aaron C YoungDepartment of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Ecology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 88003, USA.
DeeAnne MeliopoulosDepartment of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Ecology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 88003, USA.
Martha J DesmondDepartment of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Ecology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 88003, USA. mdesmond@nmsu.edu.
David DanielDepartment of Economics, Applied Statistics, and International Business, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 88003, USA.
Fitsum AbadiDepartment of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Ecology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 88003, USA.

Funding

U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Hispanic Serving Institutions Program 2011-38422-30947
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Solar energy is growing at unprecedented rates, with the most development projected to occur in areas with high concentrations of threatened and endangered species, yet its effects on wildlife remain largely unexplored. In 2014 and 2015 we examined the influence of a solar facility on avian community occupancy in the Nutt grasslands of south-central New Mexico. We examined the effect of distance to solar facility as well as other habitat covariates, including vegetation structure and orthopteran abundance, on community occupancy and occupancy trends for individual species. We did not find a significant effect of distance to solar facility on occupancy probability for the songbird community. Instead, orthopteran abundance had a significant positive effect on occupancy probability for the community. Two synanthropic species, Eurasian-collared dove (Streptopelia decaocto), and house finch (Haemorhous mexicanus), were found almost exclusively within the solar facility and both species increased between years, suggesting that developments in natural habitats may facilitate populations of synanthropic species. These results demonstrate the variability in responses of different species to a solar facility and the interacting influence of habitat characteristics and disturbance associated with development.

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BirdsGrasslandSolar EnergyAnimalsColumbidaeConservation of Natural ResourcesEcosystemNew MexicoChihuahuan grasslandsCommunity occupancyGrassland birdsInsectivorous speciesOccupancy modelsSynanthropic species

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PMCPMC11965265

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