WIMBY - Wind In My Backyard: High-resolution ecological niche models and connectivity analyses for selected wildlife species
Subproject of:
WIMBY - Wind In My Backyard: Using holistic modelling tools to advance social awareness and engagement on large wind power installations in the EU. (WIMBY)
- Project Leader
- Schöll Eva Maria, Project Leader
- Duration:
- 01.01.2023-31.12.2025
- Programme:
- Horizon Europe - Global Challenges - Research & Innovation Action (RIA)
- Type of Research
- Applied Research
- Staff
- Nopp-Mayr Ursula, Sub Projectleader
- Kunz Florian, Project Staff
- Diengdoh Vishesh Leon, Project Staff (bis 31.12.2024)
- BOKU Research Units
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Institute for Landscape Development, Recreation and Conservation Planning
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Institute of Sustainable Economic Development
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Institute of Wildlife Biology and Game Management (IWJ)
- Funded by
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Commission of the European Communities, Rue de la Loi, Brussels, European Union
- Abstract
- The expansion of wind energy contributes, among other things, to achieving climate goals. However, it must be ensured that this expansion is acceptable from an ecological perspective. In order to make such an assessment, possible impacts on ecosystems and wildlife species must be recorded and associated nature conservation interests must be considered.
Species-specific habitats, existing stepping stones and dispersal corridors are of major importance for maintaining gene flow, thereby preserving genetic diversity and minimizing extinction risk within meta-population systems. However, these factors have often been disregarded or even neglected in previous planning processes for wind farms. Within the project, high-resolution, spatially explicit models (ecological niche model, ENM) will be developed for selected wildlife species based on robust and easily available presence-only data points. The models will subsequently be transformed to landscapes´ resistance matrices, which in turn will be used within connectivity modelling.
- Keywords
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Animal ecology ;
Zoology;
Wildlife science;
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biology;
land use;
metapopulation;
ecological consequences;
wind power;
