Silke Bauer


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Bauer

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Silke

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0000-0002-0844-164X

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01709 - Lehre Umweltsystemwissenschaften

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  • Towards a sustainable energy transition
    Item type: Other Journal Item
    Bauer, Silke; Lancaster, Lesley T.; Zimmermann, Niklaus E. (2025)
    Journal of Applied Ecology
    In efforts to curb global CO2 emissions, energy production sees massive transformations worldwide-away from fossil-fuel to renewable power generation. However, the construction and operation of renewable energy infrastructure alters landscapes and habitats on this global scale and may have a range of environmental and ecological impacts on species, populations, biodiversity and ultimately, ecosystem services and disservices. As the climate and biodiversity crisis are two of the greatest challenges of our time, and both are interlinked, we need to consider biodiversity costs in gains from transitioning to net-zero and conversely, costs of the energy transition in terms of loss of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. This Special Feature includes works that address current questions as to the implications of new energy infrastructure for biodiversity, identify trade-offs for balancing contrasting aims of energy production and biodiversity conservation, and propose mitigation measures for potentially harmful effects. Synthesis and applications. Combining the goals of energy transition and biodiversity protection is both necessary and possible. With the costs of inaction increasing rapidly, we need to remember that combatting climate change (through the energy transition) is an important element in halting biodiversity loss (through climate change). Still, some questions remain as to the net effects of globally upscaled use of renewable energy production on biodiversity and whether scalable mitigation measures for these costs will be sufficiently effective.
  • Ornithology: Night flight communication across species boundaries
    Item type: Other Journal Item
    Liechti, Felix; Bauer, Silke (2025)
    Current Biology
    Might the flight call of a Green heron during migration provide relevant information for an Ovenbird en route? An extensive quantitative analysis of flight calls of migrating birds reveals evidence that social interactions across species boundaries occurs during sustained flight at night.
  • Biological data derived from European weather radars
    Item type: Journal Article
    Desmet, Peter; Shamoun-Baranes, Judy; Kranstauber, Bart; et al. (2025)
    Scientific Data
    Weather radars detect more than weather, they also continuously register the movements of billions of animals aloft in the lower atmosphere. This makes archived, unfiltered weather radar data a goldmine for biological monitoring purposes, providing coverage of the aerial habitat in a way no other method can. Here we present two datasets of biological data extracted from European weather radar data, obtained through a collaboration with the Operational Programme for the Exchange of Weather Radar Information (OPERA) and three national meteorological services. The datasets were created by processing weather radar data with methods optimized for extracting bird targets, resulting in vertical profiles of biological targets. The datasets collectively cover 141 radar stations in 18 countries, from 2008 to 2023. Data quality and coverage differs between years, countries, and radar stations, so care must be taken when evaluating data for each specific use case. Despite these challenges the datasets are currently the most comprehensive of their kind in Europe and open new avenues in understanding continental scale movements of aerial animals.
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