Mapping bird and bat assemblage vulnerability for predicting wind energy impact #ESP

Highlights Passerines and raptors faced the highest bird casualties with griffon vultures most affected. Vespertilionidae bats accounted for 94 percent of deaths with P.pipistrellus most affected. Birds with aerial lifestyles and trophic levels correlated with turbine collisions. Bat mortality in wind turbines was related to guild-type. High vulnerability areas for birds and bats are in southern southeastern and northern Spain. Abstract: We examined the main ecological traits linked to wind turbine mortality in 214 bird and 19 bat species in . . .


https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/mapping-bird-and-bat-assemblage-vulnerability-for-predicting-wind-energy-impact/