Estimation of bird and bat mortality at wind-power farms with superpopulation models

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 902-911

  Péron, Guillaume ^a,b   Hines, James E ^b   Nichols, James D ^b   Kendall, William L ^a   Peters, Kimberly A ^c,d   Mizrahi, David S ^c  

^a and Department of Statistics   (United States)

^b PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c New Jersey Audubon Society   (United States)

^d Massachusetts Audubon Society   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioeconomic models; Carcass search; Eastern red bat; Golden eagle; Hoary bat; Optimal sampling design; Superpopulation; Wildlife fatalities; Wind power; Wind turbines

Indexed keywords

BAT; BIRD; COMPENSATION; DATA SET; DESIGN; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HETEROGENEITY; MORTALITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION MODELING; SAMPLING; SUBPOPULATION; WILD POPULATION; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE;

NEW JERSEY; UNITED STATES;

AQUILA; AVES; LASIURUS BOREALIS; LASIURUS CINEREUS;

EID: 84880326047     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12100     Document Type: Article

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