Constant and seasonal drivers of bird communities in a wind farm: implications for conservation.

ABSTRACT: Background. One of the most difficult challenges for conservation biology is to reconcile growing human demands for resources with the rising need for protecting nature. Wind farms producing renewable energy have been recognised to be a threat for birds, but clear directives for environmental planning are still missing. Methods. Point counts were performed to study the relationship between eight environmental variables and bird populations in different parts of a year on the largest Polish wind farm between March 2011 and February 2013. Variables potentially related to species richness (Chao 1 estimator) and the abundance of the entire bird community as well as five selected farmland species were analysed with the use of generalized linear mixed models. Results. Some associations between t

SUBMITTER: Rosin ZM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4957985 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature