Wind farm facilities in Germany kill noctule bats from near and far

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Lehnert, Linn S ^a   Kramer Schadt, Stephanie ^a   Schönborn, Sophia ^a   Lindecke, Oliver ^a,b   Niermann, Ivo ^c   Voigt, Christian C ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BAT; CLASSIFICATION; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHY; GERMANY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; RENEWABLE ENERGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; WIND;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; GEOGRAPHY; GERMANY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POWER PLANTS; RENEWABLE ENERGY; WIND;

EID: 84905904716     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103106     Document Type: Article

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