Software for a national model of bat fatalities at wind facilities, (version 1.1.0)
November 4, 2026
This software contains the code for modeling and predicting bat fatalities at onshore wind energy facilities across the United States. The software is written in R and includes hierarchical Bayesian N-mixture models implemented in JAGS to predict bat fatalities across wind facilities retrospectively from 1981-2024 and under future potential wind development build-out scenarios across the U.S.
Citation Information
| Publication Year | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Title | Software for a national model of bat fatalities at wind facilities, (version 1.1.0) |
| DOI | 10.5066/P138DAXS |
| Authors | Charles J. Labuzzetta, Ashton M. Wiens, Bradley J Udell, Teresa F Bohner, James (Jay) E. Diffendorfer, Alejandro Grajal-Puche, Cris D Hein, Arnold Johnsen, Anthony Lopez, Trieu Mai, Brian E Reichert, Megan Seymour, Wayne E Thogmartin, Bethany R Straw |
| Product Type | Software Release |
| Record Source | USGS Asset Identifier Service (AIS) |
| USGS Organization | Fort Collins Science Center |
| Rights | This work is licensed under CC BY 4.0 |
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