Biodiversity and Wind Farms in Portugal

Provides an insight into the main impacts of Portuguese wind energy facilities on wildlife, in particular birds, bats and wolf

Offers unique insights into methods and procedures of biodiversity impact assessment in Portugal

Showcases the adaptive management framework in wind energy industry

Inhalt

Section I. Wildlife interactions with wind farms.- Chapter 1.- Spatial and temporal dynamics of bird, bat communities and terrestrial mammals on wind farms in the Iberian Peninsula.- Chapter 2.- Impacts of wind farms on bird and bat communities: Direct Fatality and Indirect Impacts (behavioural and habitat effects).- Section II. Assessing and monitoring the impacts of wind farms on wildlife.- Chapter 3.- Assessment methods to determine impacts: an overview.- Chapter 4.- Vulnerability models to estimate the impacts of wind farms on bird and bat communities.- Chapter 5.- The indirect Impacts of wind farms: disturbance & exclusion effect on terrestrial mammals populations.- Chapter 6.- Comparing the performance of the monitoring methods used to determine bid and bat fatalities.- Chapter 7.- Estimating bird and bat fatality at wind farms: Models to predict impact significance.- Section III. An integrated management approach to reconcile biodiversity and wind farms.- Chapter 8.- Reconciliation of biodiversity and wind energy: a tiered-based approach.- Chapter 9.- How to design an adaptive management approach.