Using environmental impact assessment and post-construction monitoring data to inform wind energy developments
| Autor: | Philip J. K. McGowan, Mieke C. Zwart, Mark J. Whittingham, Sarah Rankin, Peter Robson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Biodiversity offsetting
Wind power Ecology biology business.industry Environmental resource management Wildlife Black grouse biology.organism_classification Renewable energy Lek mating Abundance (ecology) Environmental science Environmental impact assessment business Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics |
| Zdroj: | Ecosphere. 6:art26 |
| ISSN: | 2150-8925 |
| DOI: | 10.1890/es14-00331.1 |
| Popis: | Ecological data are routinely collected for Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) and post-consent planning requirements to assess potential negative impacts of developments on wildlife. Such data are almost always obtained from a single site and this often prohibits robust statistical analysis due to insufficient replication. Here, we integrate data collected during EIAs and post-construction monitoring from multiple sites to study the impact of wind energy developments on the distribution and abundance of black grouse. We show that the construction of wind turbines at these seven sites had no detectable effect on the abundance of lekking black grouse, but that leks within 500 m of the nearest planned wind turbine moved locally after construction (median distance before construction was 250 m and after was 803 m). This effect was not observed for leks greater than 500 m from a wind turbine. Although not examined within this study, there are several reasons which, individually or in combination, could u... |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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