Barotrauma is a significant cause of bat fatalities at wind turbines

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 2008, Pages

  Baerwald, Erin F ^a   D'Amours, Genevieve H ^a   Klug, Brandon J ^a   Barclay, Robert M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BAROTRAUMA; BAT; ENERGY RESOURCE; INJURY; LETTER; LUNG; PATHOLOGY; WIND;

ANIMALS; BAROTRAUMA; CHIROPTERA; ENERGY-GENERATING RESOURCES; LUNG; WIND;

AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 49649110557     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.06.029     Document Type: Letter

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