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AUTHOR
Raimundo Real
Differential recovery of habitat use by birds after wind farm installation: A multi-year comparison
Abstract Onshore wind farms remain one of the most widely used technologies for the production of renewable energy. These are known to affect birds through disturbance or collision. Most research focus on the impact of wind farms on raptors or other large bird species, especially those of conservation concern. However, limited information exists on the effect of wind farms on small birds. Recovery of large versus small bird populations impacted by wind farms is also largely unstudied. A reason for this is the lack of long-term datasets based on standardized, systematic assessments. We monitored birds in the vicinity of a wind farm in an upland habitat in southern Spain (Malaga province), im…
Environmental factors determining the establishment of the African Long-legged BuzzardButeo rufinus cirtensisin Western Europe
Winters have become warmer under the impact of climate change, which has modified the phenology of birds and also their distribution ranges. The African Long-legged Buzzard Buteo rufinus cirtensis has recently colonized Europe via the Strait of Gibraltar. We aim to explain the native distribution of this species and to predict favourable areas in newly colonized parts of Europe using geospatial modelling to identify the most influential factors in this process. We applied the favourability function, a generalized linear model describing environmental favourability, for the presence/absence of breeding areas in northern Morocco and the southern Iberian Peninsula, according to a set of variab…
Species distribution models as a useful tool in conservation programs: the case of the Northern Bald Ibis
The Northern Bald Ibis (Geronticus eremita) is one of the most endangered species on the planet. Its original distribution covered from Syria and Turkey (with migrant populations) to Morocco (where the species was sedentary). Over the last century, the species had suffered an extreme decline in its population size, and is now considered tobecritically endangered. Nowadays, the original distribution range of the species is restricted to the Agadir region in Morocco. In Europe the Northern Bald Ibis was extinct 400 years ago, and the species is only present in Spain and Austria, and this is due to two different conservation projects, i.e.e. the Eremita project and a LIFE+ project, respectivel…