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Renewable energy: Regional Simulation Game

The project will evaluate at the regional level the assessment methodology and results of the previous project "Expansion scenarios for renewable energies from a nature conservation viewpoint", in…

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Renewables in nature conservation monitoring

The project fills the gap of a missing overall view of the effects of the expansion of renewable energies on nature and landscape since 1991. The research project will examine the impact of the…

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Repowering of wind turbines

A significant increase in the repowering of wind turbines is expected in the near future, as the period of guaranteed feed-in renumeration for many existing wind turbines will expire. From a nature…

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Blick in einen Windpark, an einer Anlage im Vordergrund sind Kranarbeiten zu erkennen

Small wind turbines and bats

While the danger to bats from large wind turbines has now been proved, there is still uncertainty about the effects of small wind turbines (SWT). Based on a before-and-after comparison, bat behaviour…

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Songbird migration offshore

Every year, millions of songbirds fly over the North Sea as they migrate between their wintering and breeding grounds. However, this behaviour is still poorly understood with regard to the massive…

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Species and site protection in planning

The main focus of the project is to standardise and optimise the processes for the legal review of species and site protection at higher planning levels. This concentrates in particular on the higher…

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From the air: a landscape with forests, fields and wind turbines

Species conservation and small wind turbines

This project records baseline data on a larger scale for the first time in order to evaluate the effects of small wind turbines on birds and bats. The study also analyses the relevant determining…

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A small wind turbine against a cloudy sky

SuN-diverse – More biodiversity in solar farms

The expansion of solar energy, also on open land, will increase strongly in Germany in the next few years. The aim of the project is to improve the consideration of nature conservation issues in the…

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Solaranlage auf einer grünen Wiese

TRACKBIRD - Bird migration over the North Sea and Baltic Sea and offshore wind energy

The aim of the project is to study the potential effects of offshore wind turbines on migratory birds and passage migrants.

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Mobile Antennne vor Abendhimmel

Tree species in German forests

This project aims to compare different methods for assessing the naturalness of the tree species composition of woodlands in Germany and presents suggestions for a more transparent and spatially and…

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