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DOI	10.1002/jwmg.21565
	Population-level effects of wind farms on a desert lizard
	Keehn, Jade E.1; Shoemaker, Kevin T.2; Feldman, Chris R.1
通讯作者	Feldman, Chris R.
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT
ISSN	0022-541X
EISSN	1937-2817
出版年	2019
卷号	83 期号:1 页码:145-157
英文摘要	Renewable forms of energy production can have major societal benefits including reduced carbon pollution and decreased dependence on fossil fuels but are not without associated costs. For example, habitat degradation at renewable energy production sites may affect the persistence of wildlife populations. We assessed the effects of wind farms in the San Gorgonio Wind Resource Area near Palm Springs, California, 2013-2015, on local populations of the side-blotched lizard (Uta stansburiana). The side-blotched lizard is a common and ubiquitous desert reptile that is a major consumer of invertebrates and, in turn, represents a key prey base for many avian, reptilian, and mammalian predators. We used spatially explicit capture-recapture methods to compare a comprehensive set of population-level vital signs (i.e., abundance, population growth rate, survival, recruitment, body condition, age structure, activity area size, movement rates) among populations at 4 wind farms and at 5 reference areas. Although our models indicate that wind facilities have a weak negative effect on side-blotched lizard survival, our overall results suggest that wind farms do not substantially influence the demography or behavior of these small lizards. Population response to general anthropogenic disturbance (quantified as an index of road type and density) was more pronounced, with lower population growth rates, adult-skewed age structure, and reduced body condition at highly disturbed wind farm and reference sites. We therefore conclude that wind-power facilities can support healthy populations of side-blotched lizards, indicating that wind energy development is compatible with a native Mojave Desert species. However, our results show that anthropogenic disturbance, as measured by the type and density of roadways, has a negative effect on lizard populations, and should be carefully planned whether associated with energy development or not. Our study demonstrates a methodological approach that can be applied to other species, including those with lower tolerances to disturbance, to measure their response to renewable energy development. (c) 2018 The Wildlife Society.
英文关键词	anthropogenic disturbance recruitment renewable energy side-blotched lizard spatially explicit capture-recapture (SECR) survival Uta stansburiana wind turbine
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	USA
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000453729100017
WOS关键词	UTA-STANSBURIANA ; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ; ENERGY DEVELOPMENT ; BODY CONDITION ; ANTIPREDATOR BEHAVIOR ; LATITUDINAL VARIATION ; TROPHIC INTERACTIONS ; BAT FATALITIES ; MOJAVE DESERT ; PLANT
WOS类目	Ecology ; Zoology
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Zoology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/217424
作者单位	1.Univ Nevada, Dept Biol, Reno, NV 89557 USA; 2.Univ Nevada, Dept Nat Resources & Environm Sci, Reno, NV 89557 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Keehn, Jade E.,Shoemaker, Kevin T.,Feldman, Chris R.. Population-level effects of wind farms on a desert lizard[J],2019,83(1):145-157.
APA	Keehn, Jade E.,Shoemaker, Kevin T.,&Feldman, Chris R..(2019).Population-level effects of wind farms on a desert lizard.JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT,83(1),145-157.
MLA	Keehn, Jade E.,et al."Population-level effects of wind farms on a desert lizard".JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT 83.1(2019):145-157.