Estimating wind turbine-caused bird mortality

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2781-2791

  Smallwood, K Shawn ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird carcass; Fatality monitoring; Mortality estimate; Scavenger removal; Searcher detection; Wind turbine

Indexed keywords

BIRD; ESTIMATION METHOD; MORTALITY; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE;

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EID: 38649121090     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2007-006     Document Type: Article

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