Mortality at wind-farms is positively related to large-scale distribution and aggregation in griffon vultures

Biological Conservation

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 102-108

  Carrete, Martina ^a   Sánchez Zapata, José A ^b   Benítez, José R ^c   Lobón, Manuel ^c   Montoya, Francisco ^c   Donázar, José A ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^c Colectivo Ornitológico Cigüeña Negra ^*  (Spain)

^d DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bird abundance; Collision risk; Gyps fulvus; Predictive modelling; Spain; Wind energy; Wind farm; Wind farm mortality

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COLLISION; GUIDELINE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; MORTALITY; RAPTOR; WIND FARM; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE;

SPAIN;

AVES; GYPS FULVUS;

EID: 84856228845     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.10.017     Document Type: Article

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