Abstract: Wind turbine collisions are a leading cause of bat mortality globally, yet the vulnerability of Australian bat taxa remains poorly understood. Trait-based assessments offer a valuable method for evaluating mortality risk in the absence of data on species- and region-specific turbine interactions. Behavioural and morphological traits are strongly associated with bat fatalities at wind farms globally. Here, we use a trait-based approach to identify the relative vulnerability of bat genera to the increasing threat of wind turbine fatalities in . . .
https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/vulnerability-of-bats-in-australia-to-wind-turbine-mortality-a-trait-based-assessment/
