Characterising the impacts of emerging energy development on wildlife, with an eye towards mitigation

JM Northrup, G Wittemyer - Ecology letters, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Global demand for energy is projected to increase by 40% in the next 20 years, and largely
will be met with alternative and unconventional sources. Development of these resources …

Evidence of negative effects of anthropogenic structures on wildlife: a review of grouse survival and behaviour

TJ Hovick, RD Elmore, DK Dahlgren… - Journal of Applied …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic structures such as those associated with energy development are a major
threat to wildlife as a result of direct and indirect effects on populations. Species already …

Livestock as ecosystem engineers for grassland bird habitat in the western Great Plains of North America

JD Derner, WK Lauenroth, P Stapp… - Rangeland Ecology & …, 2009 - Elsevier
Domestic livestock have the potential to function as ecosystem engineers in semiarid
rangelands, but prevailing management practices largely emphasize livestock production …

Avoidance behavior by prairie grouse: implications for development of wind energy

CL Pruett, MA Patten, DH Wolfe - Conservation Biology, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
New wind‐energy facilities and their associated power transmission lines and roads are
being constructed at a rapid pace in the Great Plains of North America. Nevertheless, little is …

Map** oil and gas development potential in the US Intermountain West and estimating impacts to species

HE Copeland, KE Doherty, DE Naugle, A Pocewicz… - PloS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Background Many studies have quantified the indirect effect of hydrocarbon-based
economies on climate change and biodiversity, concluding that a significant proportion of …

Space use by female Greater Prairie‐Chickens in response to wind energy development

VL Winder, LB McNew, AJ Gregory, LM Hunt… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Wind energy development is targeted to meet 20% of US energy demand by 2030. In
Kansas, optimal sites for wind energy development often overlap with preferred habitats of …

Effects of wind energy development on nesting ecology of greater prairie‐chickens in fragmented grasslands

LB McNew, LM Hunt, AJ Gregory… - Conservation …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Wind energy is targeted to meet 20% of US energy needs by 2030, but new sites for
development of renewable energy may overlap with important habitats of declining …

[HTML][HTML] Lesser prairie-chicken avoidance of trees in a grassland landscape

JM Lautenbach, RT Plumb, SG Robinson… - Rangeland Ecology & …, 2017 - Elsevier
Grasslands are among the most imperiled ecosystems in North America. Reasons that
grasslands are threatened include conversion to row-crop agriculture, fragmentation, and …

Investigating impacts of oil and gas development on greater sage‐grouse

AW Green, CL Aldridge… - The Journal of Wildlife …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystem is one of the largest ecosystems in western North
America providing habitat for species found nowhere else. Sagebrush habitats have …

Evaluating vegetation effects on animal demographics: The role of plant phenology and sampling bias

D Gibson, EJ Blomberg, JS Sedinger - Ecology and Evolution, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Plant phenological processes produce temporal variation in the height and cover of
vegetation. Key aspects of animal life cycles, such as reproduction, often coincide with the …