Assessing risk to birds from industrial wind energy development via paired resource selection models

Conservation Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 745-755

  Miller, Tricia A ^a,b   Brooks, Robert P ^a   Lanzone, Michael ^c   Brandes, David ^d   Cooper, Jeff ^e   O'Malley, Kieran ^f   Maisonneuve, Charles ^g   Tremblay, Junior ^g   Duerr, Adam ^b   Katzner, Todd ^b,h  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Cellular Tracking Technologies   (United States)

^d LAFAYETTE COLLEGE   (United States)

^e Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries   (United States)

^f West Virginia Division of Natural Resources   (United States)

^g MINISTÈRE DES RESSOURCES NATURELLES ET DE LA FAUNE   (Canada)

^h Ministère des Ressources naturelles et de la Faune ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Golden Eagle; Habitat modeling; Risk assessment; Spatial ecology; Wind energy development

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIRD; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE;

ALLEGHENY MOUNTAINS; APPALACHIANS; PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED STATES;

ACCIPITRIDAE; ANIMALIA; AQUILA; AQUILA CHRYSAETOS; AVES;

ANIMAL; EAGLE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; RENEWABLE ENERGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARDS; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; WIND;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EAGLES; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PENNSYLVANIA; RENEWABLE ENERGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; WIND;

EID: 84900397385     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12227     Document Type: Article

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