Journal of Applied Ecology

Issue 49:2 - Towards understanding the population-level effects of wind farms on birds

In an effort to combat climate change by reducing CO₂ emissions, governments worldwide have set ambitious targets for renewable energy generation. As a result, the wind energy sector has grown rapidly in recent years, with over 3000 wind turbines now installed in 300 wind farms in the UK alone (RenewableUK 2012). Read the journal commentary, and read the paper for free. This paper has also been featured online on the BBC and the Guardian.

Selected paper

Greater impacts of wind farms on bird populations during construction than subsequent operation: results of a multi-site and multi-species analysis

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Recent Faculty of 1000 reviews:

• Building the evidence base for ecological impact assessment and mitigation. (Practitioner's Perspective)
• A modified matrix model to describe the seasonal population ecology of the European tick Ixodes ricinus.

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In the News

Greater impacts of wind farms on bird populations during construction than subsequent operation: results of a multi-site and multi-species analysis by Pearce-Higgins et al. was highlighted on the BBC and the Guardian in the UK and ClimateSpectator in Austalia.

First evidence that Marine Protected Areas can work for marine animals by Gormley et al. was featured on news sites globally including BBC Nature, CNN and ScienceDaily.

Predicting the speed of tick invasion: an empirical model of range expansion for the Lyme disease vector Ixodes scapularis in Canada made news headlines with features on EurekAlert and the Edmonton Journal amongst others.

Huge amount of media coverage for Limitations to sustainable frankincense production: blocked regeneration, high adult mortality and declining populations by Groenendijk et al. The paper has been featured on sites across the world from the Guardian and the BBC to USA TODAY and ABC News in Australia.

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