Large-scale citizen science improves assessment of risk posed by wind farms to bats in southern Scotland

Biological Conservation

Volumn 215, Issue , 2017, Pages 61-71

  Newson, Stuart E ^a   Evans, Hazel E ^a   Gillings, Simon ^a   Jarrett, David ^a   Raynor, Robert ^b   Wilson, Mark W ^a  

^a THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH NATURAL HERITAGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bat activity; Bats; Citizen science; Monitoring; Species distribution; Wind farms

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BAT; BIOMONITORING; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVEY DESIGN; WIND FARM; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

NYCTALUS NOCTULA;

EID: 85034100512     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2017.09.004     Document Type: Article

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