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Wind turbines impair the access of bats to water bodies in agricultural landscapes
A scientific team from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) has now shown that access to drinking sites is hampered by wind turbines in agricultural landscapes ...