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Geo-referencing bird-window collisions for targeted mitigation
Bird collisions with windows are an important conservation concern. Efficient mitigation efforts should prioritize retrofitting sections of glass exhibiting the highest mortality of birds. Most collision studies, however, record location meta-data at a spatial scale too coarse (i.e., compass directi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5756612/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29312833 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4215 |
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author | Winton, R. Scott Ocampo-Peñuela, Natalia Cagle, Nicolette |
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description | Bird collisions with windows are an important conservation concern. Efficient mitigation efforts should prioritize retrofitting sections of glass exhibiting the highest mortality of birds. Most collision studies, however, record location meta-data at a spatial scale too coarse (i.e., compass direction of facing façade) to be useful for large buildings with complex geometries. Through spatial analysis of three seasons of survey data at a large building at a university campus, we found that GPS data were able to identify collision hotspots while compass directions could not. To demonstrate the broad applicability and utility of this georeferencing approach, we identified collision hotspots at two additional urban areas in North America. The data for this latter exercise were collected via the citizen science database, iNaturalist, which we review for its potential to generate the georeferenced data necessary for directing building retrofits and mitigating a major source of anthropogenic bird mortality. |
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spelling | pubmed-57566122018-01-08 Geo-referencing bird-window collisions for targeted mitigation Winton, R. Scott Ocampo-Peñuela, Natalia Cagle, Nicolette PeerJ Conservation Biology Bird collisions with windows are an important conservation concern. Efficient mitigation efforts should prioritize retrofitting sections of glass exhibiting the highest mortality of birds. Most collision studies, however, record location meta-data at a spatial scale too coarse (i.e., compass direction of facing façade) to be useful for large buildings with complex geometries. Through spatial analysis of three seasons of survey data at a large building at a university campus, we found that GPS data were able to identify collision hotspots while compass directions could not. To demonstrate the broad applicability and utility of this georeferencing approach, we identified collision hotspots at two additional urban areas in North America. The data for this latter exercise were collected via the citizen science database, iNaturalist, which we review for its potential to generate the georeferenced data necessary for directing building retrofits and mitigating a major source of anthropogenic bird mortality. PeerJ Inc. 2018-01-04 /pmc/articles/PMC5756612/ /pubmed/29312833 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4215 Text en ©2018 Winton et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited. |
spellingShingle | Conservation Biology Winton, R. Scott Ocampo-Peñuela, Natalia Cagle, Nicolette Geo-referencing bird-window collisions for targeted mitigation |
title | Geo-referencing bird-window collisions for targeted mitigation |
title_full | Geo-referencing bird-window collisions for targeted mitigation |
title_fullStr | Geo-referencing bird-window collisions for targeted mitigation |
title_full_unstemmed | Geo-referencing bird-window collisions for targeted mitigation |
title_short | Geo-referencing bird-window collisions for targeted mitigation |
title_sort | geo-referencing bird-window collisions for targeted mitigation |
topic | Conservation Biology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5756612/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29312833 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4215 |
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