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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.

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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