Solar Energy-driven Land-cover Change Could Alter Landscapes Critical to Animal Movement in the Continental United States
Michael O. Levin,
Elizabeth L. Kalies,
Emma Forester
et al.
Abstract:The United States may produce as much as 45% of its electricity
using solar energy technology by 2050, which could require more than
40,000 km2 of land to be converted to large-scale solar
energy production facilities. Little is known about how such development
may impact animal movement. Here, we use five spatially explicit projections
of solar energy development through 2050 to assess the extent to which
ground-mounted photovoltaic solar energy expansion in the continental
United States may impact land-cover… Show more
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