Description
Book SynopsisBrings together disparate conversations about wildlife conservation and renewable energy, suggesting ways these two critical fields can work hand in hand. Renewable energy is often termed simply green energy, but its effects on wildlife and other forms of biodiversity can be quite complex. While capturing renewable resources like wind, solar, and energy from biomass can require more land than fossil fuel production, potentially displacing wildlife habitat, renewable energy infrastructure can also create habitat and promote species health when thoughtfully implemented. The authors of Renewable Energy and Wildlife Conservation argue that in order to achieve a balanced plan for addressing these two crucially important sustainability issues, our actions at the nexus of these fields must be directed by current scientific information related to the ecological effects of renewable energy production. Synthesizing an extensive, rapidly growing base of research and insights from practitioner
Trade ReviewA coming-together of noted authorities in [the energy and conservation] fields seeking a beneficial solution to both their respective purposes is heartening indeed. Given this, and all the information presented in its pages,
Renewable Energy and Wildlife Conservation is a book that should be read by all who are professionally involved in both these fields as well as any others who are simply in search of a better understanding of two of the defining challenges of our age.
—Johannes E. Riutta,
The Well-Read NaturalistTable of ContentsList of Contributors
Introduction. Renewable Energy and Wildlife Conservation
Christopher E. Moorman, Steven M. Grodsky, and Susan P. Rupp
PART I BIOENERGY AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION
1 Short-Rotation Woody Crops and Wildlife Conservation
Rachel Greene, James A. Martin, and T. Bently Wigley
2 Effects of Harvesting Forest-Based Biomass on Terrestrial Wildlife
Jessica A. Homyack and Jake Verschuyl
3 Impacts on Wildlife of Annual Crops for Biofuel Production
Clint Otto
4 Second-Generation Feedstocks from Dedicated Energy Crops:
Implications for Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat
Susan P. Rupp and Christine A. Ribic
PART II WIND ENERGY AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION
5 Wind Energy Effects on Birds
Regan Dohm and David Drake
6 Wind Energy Effects on Bats
Cris D. Hein and Amanda M. Hale
7 Effects of Wind Energy on Wildlife: Emerging Issues and Underrepresented Taxa
Nicole M. Korfanta and Victoria H. Zero
PART III SOLAR ENERGY, WATERPOWER, AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION
8 Solar Energy: A Technology with Multi-Scale Opportunities to Integrate Wildlife Conservation
Brian B. Boroski
9 Waterpower: Hydropower and Marine Hydrokinetic Energy
Henriette I. Jager and Lindsay M. Wickman
PART IV THE FUTURE OF RENEWABLE ENERGY AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION
10 Renewable Energy Policy Directives: Implications for Wildlife Conservation
Edward B. Arnett
11 Renewable Energy Ecology: The Next Frontier in Wildlife Science
Steven M. Grodsky, Sarah R. Fritts, and Rebecca R. Hernandez
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