Bats avoid radar installations: Could electromagnetic fields deter bats from colliding with wind turbines?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Nicholls, Barry ^a   Racey, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BAT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HABITAT; HYPERTHERMIA; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; TELECOMMUNICATION; ANIMAL; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; WIND;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CHIROPTERA; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LINEAR MODELS; RADAR; WIND;

EID: 55849096225     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000297     Document Type: Article

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