Collision risk and micro-avoidance rates of birds with wind turbines in Flanders

Bird Study

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 220-230

  Everaert, Joris ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; AVOIDANCE REACTION; COLLISION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FLIGHT; MORTALITY; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; RAPTOR; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEABIRD; WADER; WIND FARM; WIND TURBINE;

BELGIUM; FLANDERS;

AVES; LARIDAE; RAPTORES; SCOLOPACIDAE;

EID: 84900006601     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063657.2014.894492     Document Type: Article

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