干旱区生态环境知识资源中心(Arid): A summary of bird mortality at photovoltaic utility scale solar facilities in the Southwestern US

Arid

DOI	10.1371/journal.pone.0232034
	A summary of bird mortality at photovoltaic utility scale solar facilities in the Southwestern US
	Kosciuch, Karl; Riser-Espinoza, Daniel; Gerringer, Michael; Erickson, Wallace
通讯作者	Kosciuch, Karl
来源期刊	PLOS ONE
ISSN	1932-6203
出版年	2020
卷号	15 期号:4
英文摘要	Recent trends in renewable energy development in the United States (U.S.) show that new installed capacity of utility-scale solar energy has exceeded 30% of total installed capacity of all sources per year since 2013. Photovoltaic solar energy provides benefits in that no emissions are produced; however, there are potential impacts from photovoltaic solar development on birds that include habitat loss and potential for collision mortality. Only 2 papers in the peer-reviewed literature present fatality information from fatality monitoring studies at a photovoltaic utility-scale solar energy facility; however, more data exists in unpublished reports. To provide a more comprehensive overview of bird mortality patterns, we synthesized results from fatality monitoring studies at 10 photovoltaic solar facilities across 13 site-years in California and Nevada. We found variability in the distribution of avian orders and species among and within Bird Conservation Regions, and found that water-obligate birds, which rely on water for take-off and landing, occurred at 90% (9/10) of site-years in the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts Bird Conservation Region. We found that a cause of mortality could not be determined for approximately 61% of intact carcasses, and that approximately 54% of all carcasses were feather spots, introducing uncertainty into the interpretation of the fatality estimates. The average annual fatality estimate we calculated for photovoltaic solar (high-end estimate of 2.49 birds per megawatt per year) is lower than that reported by another study (9.9 birds per megawatt per year) that included one photovoltaic facility. Our results provide a summary of fatalities in bird conservation regions where the facilities are located, but expanding our conclusions to new regions is limited by the location of facilities with fatality monitoring data.
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	USA
开放获取类型	gold, Green Published
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000536647300042
WOS关键词	GREBES PODICEPS-NIGRICOLLIS ; COMMUNICATION TOWERS ; AVIAN MORTALITY ; UNITED-STATES ; WEATHER ; MIGRATION
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/318581
作者单位	Western EcoSyst Technol Inc, Cheyenne, WY 82001 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Kosciuch, Karl,Riser-Espinoza, Daniel,Gerringer, Michael,et al. A summary of bird mortality at photovoltaic utility scale solar facilities in the Southwestern US[J],2020,15(4).
APA	Kosciuch, Karl,Riser-Espinoza, Daniel,Gerringer, Michael,&Erickson, Wallace.(2020).A summary of bird mortality at photovoltaic utility scale solar facilities in the Southwestern US.PLOS ONE,15(4).
MLA	Kosciuch, Karl,et al."A summary of bird mortality at photovoltaic utility scale solar facilities in the Southwestern US".PLOS ONE 15.4(2020).