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USGS Renewable Energy and Wildlife Additional Resources

Additional Resources

For more information on USGS Renewable Energy and Wildlife Research.

USGS Resources

Birds and Wind Energy

• Decision Support Partnership for Assessing Bird Movements and Habitat Use in Interior Landscapes and the Upper Great Lakes
• Delineating Breeding Populations and Tracking Night-time Movements of Long-tailed Ducks Wintering in Nantucket Sound
• Development of a relational database and predictive modeling of seabird occurrence for the western Atlantic Ocean between Maine and Florida
• Evaluating habitat use by pelagic birds and airspace use of migrant songbirds
• Evaluating the possible effects of wind power development on refuges for waterbirds
• Nocturnal bird and bat migration through the Appalachians
• Wind power-related research projects at USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
  

Microbes and Energy

• Energy and microbes as alternative energy sources

Renewable Energy and Wildlife

• Energy, land use, and sagebrush ecosystems: finding the delicate balance
• Energy and microbes
• Renewable energy sources in the United States
• Resources for understanding the effects of wind energy development
• Western Ecological Research Center on wildlife and renewable energy (solar and wind)
• Wildlife friendly wind energy

Solar Energy

• Desert tortoises and solar energy

Wildlife and Wind Energy

• Bat fatalities at wind turbines: investigating the causes and consequences
• Development of a relational database and predictive modeling of seabird occurrence for the western Atlantic Ocean between Maine and Florida
• Delineating breeding populations and tracking night-time movements of long-tailed ducks
• Evaluating habitat use by pelagic birds and airspace use of migrant songbirds
• Evaluating the possible effects of wind power development on refuging waterbirds
• Nocturnal bird and bat migration through the Appalachians
• Proactive research for bird and bat migration: assessing the risk of wind development in the Northeast (pdf)
• Resources for understanding the effects of wind energy development
• Western Ecological Research Center (WERC) on wildlife and renewable energy
• Wildlife friendly wind energy
• Wind energy and birds in interior landscapes and the Upper Great Lakes
• Wind power-related research projects at USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
• Wintering in Nantucket Sound

• Desert tortoises and solar energy
• VIDEO: The Heat is on: Desert tortoises and survival
• Western Ecological Research Center (WERC) on wildlife and renewable energy

Wind Energy and Bats

• Bat fatalities at wind turbines: investigating the causes and consequences
• Nocturnal bird and bat migration through the Appalachians
• Proactive research for bird and bat migration: assessing the risk of wind development in the Northeast (pdf)

Wind Energy and Birds

• Delineating Breeding Populations and Tracking Night-time Movements of Long-tailed Ducks Wintering in Nantucket Sound
• Development of a relational database and predictive modeling of seabird occurrence for the western Atlantic Ocean between Maine and Florida
• Evaluating habitat use by pelagic birds and airspace use of migrant songbirds
• Evaluating the possible effects of wind power development on refuges for waterbirds
• Nocturnal bird and bat migration through the Appalachians
• Wind energy and birds in interior landscapes and the Upper Great Lakes