Priority areas for conservation alone are not a good proxy for predicting the impact of renewable energy expansion

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Pérez García, Juan M.; Morant, Jon; Arrondo, Eneko; Sebastián González, Esther; Lambertucci, Sergio Agustin; Santangeli, Andrea; Margalida, Antoni; Sánchez Zapata, José A.; Blanco, Guillermo; Donázar, José A.; Carrete, Martina; Serrano, David
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2022
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There is broad consensus that increasing the use of renewable energies is effective to mitigate the global climate crisis. However, the development of renewables may carry environmental impacts, and their expansion could accelerate biodiversity loss (1). However, Dunnett et al. (2) haverecently estimated a minimal overlap between renewable energy expansion and important conservation areas (ICAs; i.e., protected areas, key biodiversity areas, wildernessareas) (sensu ref. 2), suggesting that these infrastructures would not significantly affect biodiversity conservation if properly planned and regulated. Assessing the impacts of renewables on biodiversity only in terms of their spatial overlap with ICAs ignores that these impacts on species and functional groups are asymmetric. Long-lived species are highly vulnerable to the loss of specific habitats or to nonnatural mortality, and these factors should be considered when studying conflicts between renewables and biodiversity (3). For instance, one of the most concerning impacts of wind farms, which have dramatically multiplied worldwide in recent years (Fig. 1 A and B), is the nonnatural mortality of highly mobile flying species, such as birds (4) and bats (5), due to collisions with turbines (Fig. 1 C and D). Many of these species spend a large part of their life cycle outside ICAs (6, 7), where mortality caused by infrastructures can extirpate populations at regional scales and even within ICAs (8). Consequently, thinking that we canrely only on ICAs for the protection of these species is very risky and may obscure the real magnitude of the threat posed by renewable energy development.
Fil: Pérez García, Juan M.. Universidad de Miguel Hernández; España
Fil: Morant, Jon. Aranzadi Sciences Society; España
Fil: Arrondo, Eneko. Universidad de Miguel Hernández; España
Fil: Sebastián González, Esther. Universidad de Alicante; España
Fil: Lambertucci, Sergio Agustin. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Patagonia Norte. Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente. Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Centro Regional Universidad Bariloche. Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente; Argentina
Fil: Santangeli, Andrea. University of Helsinki; Finlandia. University of Cape Town; Sudáfrica
Fil: Margalida, Antoni. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; España. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha; España
Fil: Sánchez Zapata, José A.. Universidad de Miguel Hernández; España
Fil: Blanco, Guillermo. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales; España
Fil: Donázar, José A.. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; España
Fil: Carrete, Martina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Pablo de Olavide; España
Fil: Serrano, David. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; España
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CONSERVATION
WIND FARMS
ENERGY
BIRDS
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spelling Priority areas for conservation alone are not a good proxy for predicting the impact of renewable energy expansionPérez García, Juan M.Morant, JonArrondo, EnekoSebastián González, EstherLambertucci, Sergio AgustinSantangeli, AndreaMargalida, AntoniSánchez Zapata, José A.Blanco, GuillermoDonázar, José A.Carrete, MartinaSerrano, DavidCONSERVATIONWIND FARMSENERGYBIRDShttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1There is broad consensus that increasing the use of renewable energies is effective to mitigate the global climate crisis. However, the development of renewables may carry environmental impacts, and their expansion could accelerate biodiversity loss (1). However, Dunnett et al. (2) haverecently estimated a minimal overlap between renewable energy expansion and important conservation areas (ICAs; i.e., protected areas, key biodiversity areas, wildernessareas) (sensu ref. 2), suggesting that these infrastructures would not significantly affect biodiversity conservation if properly planned and regulated. Assessing the impacts of renewables on biodiversity only in terms of their spatial overlap with ICAs ignores that these impacts on species and functional groups are asymmetric. Long-lived species are highly vulnerable to the loss of specific habitats or to nonnatural mortality, and these factors should be considered when studying conflicts between renewables and biodiversity (3). For instance, one of the most concerning impacts of wind farms, which have dramatically multiplied worldwide in recent years (Fig. 1 A and B), is the nonnatural mortality of highly mobile flying species, such as birds (4) and bats (5), due to collisions with turbines (Fig. 1 C and D). Many of these species spend a large part of their life cycle outside ICAs (6, 7), where mortality caused by infrastructures can extirpate populations at regional scales and even within ICAs (8). Consequently, thinking that we canrely only on ICAs for the protection of these species is very risky and may obscure the real magnitude of the threat posed by renewable energy development.Fil: Pérez García, Juan M.. Universidad de Miguel Hernández; EspañaFil: Morant, Jon. Aranzadi Sciences Society; EspañaFil: Arrondo, Eneko. Universidad de Miguel Hernández; EspañaFil: Sebastián González, Esther. Universidad de Alicante; EspañaFil: Lambertucci, Sergio Agustin. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Patagonia Norte. Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente. Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Centro Regional Universidad Bariloche. Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente; ArgentinaFil: Santangeli, Andrea. University of Helsinki; Finlandia. University of Cape Town; SudáfricaFil: Margalida, Antoni. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; España. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha; EspañaFil: Sánchez Zapata, José A.. Universidad de Miguel Hernández; EspañaFil: Blanco, Guillermo. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales; EspañaFil: Donázar, José A.. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; EspañaFil: Carrete, Martina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Pablo de Olavide; EspañaFil: Serrano, David. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; EspañaNational Academy of Sciences2022-08info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/205675Pérez García, Juan M.; Morant, Jon; Arrondo, Eneko; Sebastián González, Esther; Lambertucci, Sergio Agustin; et al.; Priority areas for conservation alone are not a good proxy for predicting the impact of renewable energy expansion; National Academy of Sciences; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of The United States of America; 119; 33; 8-2022; 1-20027-84241091-6490CONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2204505119info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1073/pnas.2204505119info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2025-09-29T10:05:44Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/205675instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982025-09-29 10:05:44.585CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Priority areas for conservation alone are not a good proxy for predicting the impact of renewable energy expansion
title Priority areas for conservation alone are not a good proxy for predicting the impact of renewable energy expansion
spellingShingle Priority areas for conservation alone are not a good proxy for predicting the impact of renewable energy expansion
Pérez García, Juan M.
CONSERVATION
WIND FARMS
ENERGY
BIRDS
title_short Priority areas for conservation alone are not a good proxy for predicting the impact of renewable energy expansion
title_full Priority areas for conservation alone are not a good proxy for predicting the impact of renewable energy expansion
title_fullStr Priority areas for conservation alone are not a good proxy for predicting the impact of renewable energy expansion
title_full_unstemmed Priority areas for conservation alone are not a good proxy for predicting the impact of renewable energy expansion
title_sort Priority areas for conservation alone are not a good proxy for predicting the impact of renewable energy expansion
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Pérez García, Juan M.
Morant, Jon
Arrondo, Eneko
Sebastián González, Esther
Lambertucci, Sergio Agustin
Santangeli, Andrea
Margalida, Antoni
Sánchez Zapata, José A.
Blanco, Guillermo
Donázar, José A.
Carrete, Martina
Serrano, David
author Pérez García, Juan M.
author_facet Pérez García, Juan M.
Morant, Jon
Arrondo, Eneko
Sebastián González, Esther
Lambertucci, Sergio Agustin
Santangeli, Andrea
Margalida, Antoni
Sánchez Zapata, José A.
Blanco, Guillermo
Donázar, José A.
Carrete, Martina
Serrano, David
author_role author
author2 Morant, Jon
Arrondo, Eneko
Sebastián González, Esther
Lambertucci, Sergio Agustin
Santangeli, Andrea
Margalida, Antoni
Sánchez Zapata, José A.
Blanco, Guillermo
Donázar, José A.
Carrete, Martina
Serrano, David
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
author
author
author
author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv CONSERVATION
WIND FARMS
ENERGY
BIRDS
topic CONSERVATION
WIND FARMS
ENERGY
BIRDS
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv There is broad consensus that increasing the use of renewable energies is effective to mitigate the global climate crisis. However, the development of renewables may carry environmental impacts, and their expansion could accelerate biodiversity loss (1). However, Dunnett et al. (2) haverecently estimated a minimal overlap between renewable energy expansion and important conservation areas (ICAs; i.e., protected areas, key biodiversity areas, wildernessareas) (sensu ref. 2), suggesting that these infrastructures would not significantly affect biodiversity conservation if properly planned and regulated. Assessing the impacts of renewables on biodiversity only in terms of their spatial overlap with ICAs ignores that these impacts on species and functional groups are asymmetric. Long-lived species are highly vulnerable to the loss of specific habitats or to nonnatural mortality, and these factors should be considered when studying conflicts between renewables and biodiversity (3). For instance, one of the most concerning impacts of wind farms, which have dramatically multiplied worldwide in recent years (Fig. 1 A and B), is the nonnatural mortality of highly mobile flying species, such as birds (4) and bats (5), due to collisions with turbines (Fig. 1 C and D). Many of these species spend a large part of their life cycle outside ICAs (6, 7), where mortality caused by infrastructures can extirpate populations at regional scales and even within ICAs (8). Consequently, thinking that we canrely only on ICAs for the protection of these species is very risky and may obscure the real magnitude of the threat posed by renewable energy development.
Fil: Pérez García, Juan M.. Universidad de Miguel Hernández; España
Fil: Morant, Jon. Aranzadi Sciences Society; España
Fil: Arrondo, Eneko. Universidad de Miguel Hernández; España
Fil: Sebastián González, Esther. Universidad de Alicante; España
Fil: Lambertucci, Sergio Agustin. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Patagonia Norte. Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente. Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Centro Regional Universidad Bariloche. Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente; Argentina
Fil: Santangeli, Andrea. University of Helsinki; Finlandia. University of Cape Town; Sudáfrica
Fil: Margalida, Antoni. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; España. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha; España
Fil: Sánchez Zapata, José A.. Universidad de Miguel Hernández; España
Fil: Blanco, Guillermo. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales; España
Fil: Donázar, José A.. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; España
Fil: Carrete, Martina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Pablo de Olavide; España
Fil: Serrano, David. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; España
description There is broad consensus that increasing the use of renewable energies is effective to mitigate the global climate crisis. However, the development of renewables may carry environmental impacts, and their expansion could accelerate biodiversity loss (1). However, Dunnett et al. (2) haverecently estimated a minimal overlap between renewable energy expansion and important conservation areas (ICAs; i.e., protected areas, key biodiversity areas, wildernessareas) (sensu ref. 2), suggesting that these infrastructures would not significantly affect biodiversity conservation if properly planned and regulated. Assessing the impacts of renewables on biodiversity only in terms of their spatial overlap with ICAs ignores that these impacts on species and functional groups are asymmetric. Long-lived species are highly vulnerable to the loss of specific habitats or to nonnatural mortality, and these factors should be considered when studying conflicts between renewables and biodiversity (3). For instance, one of the most concerning impacts of wind farms, which have dramatically multiplied worldwide in recent years (Fig. 1 A and B), is the nonnatural mortality of highly mobile flying species, such as birds (4) and bats (5), due to collisions with turbines (Fig. 1 C and D). Many of these species spend a large part of their life cycle outside ICAs (6, 7), where mortality caused by infrastructures can extirpate populations at regional scales and even within ICAs (8). Consequently, thinking that we canrely only on ICAs for the protection of these species is very risky and may obscure the real magnitude of the threat posed by renewable energy development.
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