TY - JOUR
TI - Grassland bird community and acoustic complexity appear unaffected by proximity to a wind energy facility in the Nebraska Sandhills
AU - Raynor, E
AU - Whalen, C
AU - Brown, M
AU - Powell, L
T2 - Condor
AB - The placement of wind energy facilities on the landscape is a potential source of direct mortality for wildlife, but indirect effects of wind facilities on natural communities are less well known. An anthropogenically altered acoustic environment may render habitat unsuitable for species that use vocalizations to communicate. We listened to sound recordings to identify the species assemblage of common breeding birds in an unfragmented grassland in the Nebraska Sandhills (USA) in the vicinity of a wind energy facility. From the recordings, we calculated the Acoustic Complexity Index (ACI), which we used to assess differences in the avian community between a reference area (>760 m from any turbines) and a treatment area (
DA - 2017/08//
PY - 2017
VL - 119
IS - 3
SP - 484
EP - 496
UR - https://academic.oup.com/condor/article/119/3/484/5152922?searchresult=1
DO - 10.1650/CONDOR-16-164.1
LA - English
KW - Wind Energy
KW - Land-Based Wind
KW - Noise
KW - Birds
ER -