Wind Energy and Wildlife Interactions Presentations from the CWW2015 Conference /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Köppel, Johann (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Θέματα: Environment.; Renewable energy resources.; Environmental sciences.; Animal ecology.; Nature.; Renewable energy sources.; Alternate energy sources.; Green energy industries.; Environment, general.; Environmental Science and Engineering.; Popular Science in Nature and Environment.; Renewable and Green Energy.; Animal Ecology.

This book presents a selection of new insights in understanding and mitigating impacts on wildlife and their habitats. Topics such as, species behaviour and responses; collision risk and fatality estimation; landscape features and gradients, are considered. Other chapters in the book cover the resul...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Red Kites and wind farms – telemetry data from the core breeding range
• Unforeseen responses of a breeding seabird to the construction of an offshore wind farm
• A large-scale, multispecies assessment of avian mortality rates at land-based wind turbines in northern Germany
• A method to assess the population-level consequences of wind energy on bird and bat species
• Bat activity at nacelle height over forest
• Bird mortality in two Dutch wind farms: effects of location, spatial design and interactions with powerlines
• Radar assisted shutdown on demand ensures zero soaring bird mortality at a wind farm located in a migratory flyway
• Mitigating bat mortality with turbine-specific curtailment algorithms: a model based approach
• Is there a State-of-the-Art to Reduce Pile-Driving Noise?
• The Challenges of Repowering in the Context of Wildlife Impacts
• Wind farms in areas of high ornithological value – conflicts, solutions, challenges: the case of Thrace, Greece
• Introducing a New Avian Sensitivity Mapping Tool to Support the Siting of Wind Farms in the Middle East and Northeast Africa
• A framework for assessing ecological and cumulative effects (FAECE) of offshore wind farms on birds, bats and marine mammals in the southern North Sea
• Wind turbines and birds in Germany – examples of current knowledge, new insights and remaining gaps
• Future research directions to reconcile wind–wildlife interactions
• Sharing Information on Environmental Effects of Wind Energy Development: WREN Hub.