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Do wind turbines impact plant community properties in mountain region?

Patru-Stupariu, Ileana
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Calota, Ana-Maria
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Santonja, Mathieu  
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December 1, 2019
Biologia

The emergence of renewable energy infrastructures calls for a better understanding of their impact on biodiversity. The aim of the present study was to investigate in a mountain region the impact of a wind turbine on plant communities in their vicinity. A field survey was conducted in a wind farm situated in the Southern Romanian Carpathians, five years after the turbines were installed. We tested for the effects of the presence of the turbine and the distance to the turbine on plant species richness, on five plant ecological indicators and on the quality of the pastures. Overall, 33 plant species belonging to 16 families were recorded, and among them 21 were recorded in both the presence and the absence of wind turbine. The presence of a turbine did not affect the structure of the plant community, as the majority of the plots exhibited similar plant species richness and composition. Finally, the values of the ecological indicators and the pasture quality were not altered by the presence of the turbine. Such analyses could be extended over longer time periods so as to capture potential long-term effects and by integrating other environmental factors such as microclimatic conditions or soil properties.

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research article
DOI
10.2478/s11756-019-00333-9
Web of Science ID

WOS:000495115900004

Author(s)
Patru-Stupariu, Ileana
Calota, Ana-Maria
Santonja, Mathieu  
Anastasiu, Paulina
Stoicescu, Ioana
Biris, Iovu Adrian
Stupariu, Mihai-Sorin
Buttler, Alexandre  
Date Issued

2019-12-01

Publisher

SPRINGER

Published in
Biologia
Volume

74

Issue

12

Start page

1613

End page

1619

Subjects

Biology

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Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics

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wind energy

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mountain pasture

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plant ecological indicators

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pastoral value

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vegetation dynamics

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ecosystem services

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land-use

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farms

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energy

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patterns

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romania

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Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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November 24, 2019
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/163338
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