Effects of Wind Power Development on Reindeer: Global Positioning System Monitoring and Herders' Experience★
Testing and documenting effects of wind farm (WF) infrastructure on wildlife are crucial considering increasing development throughout Scandinavia, especially for reindeer, which require large areas for grazing and are vulnerable to disturbances. We present results from 2011 to 2019 for semidomestic...
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ftbioone:10.1016/j.rama.2022.11.011 2024-06-02T08:06:35+00:00 Effects of Wind Power Development on Reindeer: Global Positioning System Monitoring and Herders' Experience★ Sindre Eftestøl Diress Tsegaye Kjetil Flydal Jonathan E. Colman Sindre Eftestøl Diress Tsegaye Kjetil Flydal Jonathan E. Colman world 2023-03-09 text/HTML https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rama.2022.11.011 en eng Society for Range Management doi:10.1016/j.rama.2022.11.011 All rights reserved. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rama.2022.11.011 GPS data Herders' knowledge Text 2023 ftbioone https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rama.2022.11.011 2024-05-07T00:47:45Z Testing and documenting effects of wind farm (WF) infrastructure on wildlife are crucial considering increasing development throughout Scandinavia, especially for reindeer, which require large areas for grazing and are vulnerable to disturbances. We present results from 2011 to 2019 for semidomesticated reindeer tracked with Global Positioning System (GPS) transmitters, along with herders' knowledge about reindeers' habitat use and changes following WF development within the Raggonjarga reindeer district summer range in Finnmark, Norway. We tracked up to 36 females (ranging from 19 to 36 individuals per year), from their arrival in the study area in April to their departure in the end of October. We evaluated habitat use before, during, and after WF development at the home range and landscape scales. We also evaluated reindeer habitat use qualitatively based on semistructured interviews with local herders. The herders' reported negative effects of the WF on reindeer, both on general habitat use and intrarange movements, resulting in less use of grazing areas surrounding the WF and increased workload for the herders. The GPS results partly support the herders' experiences. We found negative effects of the WF at the landscape scale, except during summer, where the effect was positive. Results at the home range scale showed negative effects of the WF in spring and summer, but not autumn. Different results at different scales make identifying causality challenging, especially as yearly variation was also large. Different results for summer and autumn may relate to changes in herding activities and larger movement patterns, respectively. Similar and contrasting results from the two methods suggest a need for both sources of data in combination to understand and improve land management. Including herders' knowledge to understand results from GPS data is thus crucial. We also suggest future studies focus on mechanisms behind behavioral changes to better understand cause-and-effect relationships and how effects can be ... Text Finnmark Finnmark BioOne Online Journals Norway Rangeland Ecology & Management 87 55 68 |
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Testing and documenting effects of wind farm (WF) infrastructure on wildlife are crucial considering increasing development throughout Scandinavia, especially for reindeer, which require large areas for grazing and are vulnerable to disturbances. We present results from 2011 to 2019 for semidomesticated reindeer tracked with Global Positioning System (GPS) transmitters, along with herders' knowledge about reindeers' habitat use and changes following WF development within the Raggonjarga reindeer district summer range in Finnmark, Norway. We tracked up to 36 females (ranging from 19 to 36 individuals per year), from their arrival in the study area in April to their departure in the end of October. We evaluated habitat use before, during, and after WF development at the home range and landscape scales. We also evaluated reindeer habitat use qualitatively based on semistructured interviews with local herders. The herders' reported negative effects of the WF on reindeer, both on general habitat use and intrarange movements, resulting in less use of grazing areas surrounding the WF and increased workload for the herders. The GPS results partly support the herders' experiences. We found negative effects of the WF at the landscape scale, except during summer, where the effect was positive. Results at the home range scale showed negative effects of the WF in spring and summer, but not autumn. Different results at different scales make identifying causality challenging, especially as yearly variation was also large. Different results for summer and autumn may relate to changes in herding activities and larger movement patterns, respectively. Similar and contrasting results from the two methods suggest a need for both sources of data in combination to understand and improve land management. Including herders' knowledge to understand results from GPS data is thus crucial. We also suggest future studies focus on mechanisms behind behavioral changes to better understand cause-and-effect relationships and how effects can be ... |
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