Night migrant fatalities and obstruction lighting at wind turbines in North America

Wilson Journal of Ornithology

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 744-754

  Kerlinger, Paul ^a   Gehring, Joelle L ^b   Erickson, Wallace P ^c   Curry, Richard ^d   Jain, Aaftab ^e   Guarnaccia, John ^e  

^a Curry and Kerlinger LLC   (United States)

^b Michigan Natural Features Inventory   (United States)

^c Western EcoSystem Technologies Inc   (United States)

^d Curry and Kerlinger LLC   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; LIGHT EFFECT; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY; SCAVENGING (FEEDING); WIND TURBINE;

NORTH AMERICA;

AVES;

EID: 78649366762     PISSN: 15594491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1676/06-075.1     Document Type: Article

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