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Mitigating impacts to bats at wind power projects
An industry briefing note
This briefing note summarises the main approaches for managing impacts to bats at operating wind power projects. It is a complex topic and an area of active research, and distilling it into a few pages is not straightforward, but the aim is to provide a practical starting point for industry.
Population-level impacts of wind energy
Thresholds for fruit bats
This research involved modelling the popultion dynamics of two fruit bat species to determine how they would respond to wind energy impacts. The aim was to develop thresholds that would prevent population level declines in these populations due to collisions with wind turbines.