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Conference on Wind Power  
and Environmental Impacts 
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Research on the environmental effects of wind power
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Preface
Future wind power development faces many challenges. A firm knowledge 
base on impacts and mitigation is needed. This conference presents recent 
Swedish and international research and practice on environmental impacts of 
Wind Power.
Wind power development has become an important part of energy policies 
of many countries in the last decade. The world potential for wind power gen-
eration is huge. But wind power development may affect the physical environ-
ment; the landscape, soundscape, fauna and flora. There is a need for a firm 
knowledge-base on the impacts, as well as on innovative and efficient mitiga-
tion measures. 
The conference is held by the Swedish research programme 
named Vindval. The programme aims at giving a scientifically founded, over-
all picture of the different environmental impacts of wind power.  Much work 
is also in progress on these issues worldwide, and the Vindval programme 
now invites expertise and stakeholders from all over the world to share expe-
riences on the environmental impacts of wind power, and to discuss how we 
should meet the challenges created by the world-wide increase in large scale 
wind power plant construction. 
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Contents
Preface  3
POSTERS PRESENTED  15
KeyNote aBstracts  19
Johann Köppel  20
Eja Pedersen  22
Dale Strickland  23
Jakob Tougaard  25
Maarten Wolsink  27
oral PreseNtatioN aBstracts  29
Presenters name is underlined
Ingemar Ahlén & Hans J. Baagøe  30
Jonas Anshelm & Simon Haikola   31
Janine Aschwanden, Susanna Komenda-Zehnder, Jérôme Guélat,  
María Mateos & Felix Liechti  32
Oliver Behr, Klaus Hochradel, Jürgen Mages, Martina Nagy; Fränzi Korner-
Nievergelt, Ivo Niermann, Ralph Simon, Natalie Weber & Robert Brinkmann  33
Lena Bergström, Torleif Malm, Nastassja Åstrand Capetillo, Hans Ohlsson, 
Magnus Wahlberg, Rutger Rosenberg & Lena Kautsky  35
Jan Blew, U. Prall & G. Nehls  36
Gösta Bluhm, Mats Nilsson, Karl Bolin & Johanna Bengtsson-Ryberg  37
Karl Bolin & Ilkka Karasalo  38
Jana Bovet    39
Jonathan E. Colman, Kjetil Flydal, Sindre Eftestøl, Ole Tobias Rannestad & 
Leif Ryvarden  40
Jonathan E. Colman, Sindre Eftestøl, Diress Tsegaye, Kjetil Flydal,  
Hilde Rønning, Carolin Tröger & Atle Mysterud  42
Simon Coote   44
Timothy Coppack, Sissel Sjöberg, Axel Schulz, Konrad Schleicher, Alexander 
Weidauer, Rachel Muheim, Susanne Åkesson & Thomas Alerstam  45
Ana Cordeiro, Miguel Mascarenhas & Hugo Costa  47
Mette Cramer Buch  48
Thomas G. Dahlgren, Marie-Lise Schläppy, Aleksej Shashkov, Mathias 
Andersson, Yuri Rzhanov, Ilker Fer & Erling Heggøy  49
Maja Đaković & Igor Pavlinić  50
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Johnny de Jong, Petra Bach & Alexander Eriksson  51
Weronica Ekholm & Karin Hammarlund  52
Lars Falkdalen Lindahl, Ulla Falkdalen & Torgeir Nygård  53
Gesa Geißler   55
Marcos Gorresen, Paul Cryan, Mark Hayes, Manuela Huso, Cris Hein, 
Michael Schirmacher, Frank Bonaccorso & David Dalton  56
Karin Hammarlund & Mike Friesen  57
Anders Hedenström & Jens Rydell  58
Cris Hein, Wally Erickson, Jeff Gruver, Kimberly Bay & Ed Arnett  59
Stefan Heinänen & Henrik Skov  60
Jesús Hernández-Pliego, Manuela de Lucas, Antonio-Román Muñoz &  
Miguel Ferrer  61
Gundula Hübner, Johannes Pohl & Christiane Hahn  62
Alexandra Jiricka & Ulrike Pröbstl  63
Charlène Kermagoret, Harold Levrel & Antoine Carlier  64
Niklas Labba & Jonathan E. Colman  65
Hubert Lagrange, Pauline Rico, Yves Bas, Anne-Lise Ughetto,  
Frédéric Melki & Christian Kerbiriou  67
Niklas Lindberg Alseryd, Anders Enetjärn & Nic Kruys  68
Cindy Loureiro, Lígia Mendes, José Miguel Oliveira & Gonçalo Brotas  70
Jens Lüdeke   71
Fiona Mathews, Suzanne Richardson & David Hosken  72
Roel May, Kjetil Bevanger, Torgeir Nygård, Ole Reitan & Svein-Håkon Lorentsen  73
Sanna Mels   74
Alberto Mèndez Rebollo  75
Jo Milborrow, Pawel Plonczkier & Ian Simms  76
Jeroen Minderman, Elisa Fuentes-Montemajor, Chris J. Pendlebury,  
James W. Pearce-Higgins & Kirsty J. Park  77
L. Mononen, T. Kumpula, B. Burkhard & P. Vihervaara  78
Ulla Mörtberg  79
Isabel Passos, Maria João Silva, Sílvia Mesquita, Ana Teresa Marques,  
Joana Bernardino, Hugo Costa & Miguel Mascarenhas  80
Filipa Peste, Anabela Paula, Joana Bernardino, Hugo Costa,  
Miguel Mascarenhas, Carlos Fonseca & Maria João Ramos Pereira  81
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Gunārs Pētersons, Jurģis Šuba & Viesturs Vintulis  82
Johannes Pohl & Gundula Hübner  83
Johannes Pohl & Gundula Hübner  85
Fabien Quétier, Roel May, Sylvain Pioch, Scott Cole, Johann Köppel &  
Ariane Walz   87
Marc Reichenbach  89
Agustín Rioperez Postigo & Marcos de la Puente Nilsson  90
F. Roscioni, D. Russo, M. Di Febbraro & A. Loy  91
Anett Sasvari  92
Kosuke Sato & Susumu Ohnuma  93
Andreas Schmidt, Stephanie Preuß, Sabrina von Allwörden, Franziska 
Kazmierczak, Christine Kern, Sabine Nestler, Anja Schanz, Gunnar Stigge, 
Stefanie Breyer & Regine Bönsch  94
Peter Sigray & Mathias Andersson   95
Anna Skarin, Lars Rönnegård, Christian Nellemann, Henrik Lundqvist &  
Per Sandström  96
Michael C. Slattery  97
K. Shawn Smallwood, Lee Neher & Doug Bell  98
Carol Sparling, Gordon Hastie, Cormac Booth, Stephanie King,  
Nicola Quick, Jared Wilson, Catriona Harris, & Carl Donovan  99
Claus Stenberg, Grete E. Dinesen, Mikael van Deurs, Casper W. Berg, Henrik 
Mosegaard, Simon B. Leonhard, Thomas M. Grome & Josianne Støttrup  100
Paulina Turowicz, Piotr Zielinski, Anna Kucmus, Andrzej Walkowiak &  
Joanna Furmankiewicz  101
Åsa Waldo, Maria Johansson, Kristina Ek & Lars Persson  102
Richard Walls, Sally Shenton, Erica Knott, Jane Lancaster, Sarah Canning, 
Gillian Lye & Chris Pendlebury  105
Kimberly Walters, Karl Kosciuch & Jason Jones  106
Hugh Watson  107
Sascha Wellig & Raphaël Arlettaz  108
Anton S. Vlaschenko, Kseniia A. Kravchenko & Alona S. Gukasova  109
Christian Voigt, Ana Popa-Lisseanu, Ivo Niermann &  
Stephanie Kramer-Schadt  111
Beatriz Yáñez, Antonio-Román Muños, Beatriz Martín,  
Manuela de Lucas, & Miguel Ferrer  112
Pavel Zehtindjiev & D. Philip Whitfield  113
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Poster PreseNtatioN aBstracts  115
Lothar Bach, Petra Bach & Kerstin Frey  116
Petra Bach, Lothar Bach, Uwe Gerhardt & Kerstin Frey  117
Yves Bas, Alexandre Haquart, Julien Tranchar, Hubert Lagrange & Pauline Rico  118
Holger Behm, Timothy Coppack, Alexander Weidauer & Andreas Schmidt  119
Lena Bergström, Frida Sundqvist & Ulf Bergström  120
Andreas Bernhold, Anders Granér & Niklas Lindberg  121
Regina Bispo, Joana Bernardino, Hugo Costa & Miguel Mascarenhas  123
Henrick Blank & Sofia Gylje Blank  124
Alexander Braasch, Michael Joost & Christian Ketzer  125
Scott G. Cole & Espen Lie Dahl  126
Jonathan E. Colman, Sindre Eftestøl, Diress Tsegaye, Gunnlaug  
Røthe & Kåre Rapp  127
Robin Cox, Chris Pendlebury, Chris Robinson & Richard Walls  128
Manuela de Lucas Castellanos & Miguel Ferrer Baena   129
Ruth de Silva, Kate Grellier, Sarah Canning, Chris Pendlebury & Nancy McLean 130
Steven Degraer, Robin Brabant & Bob Rumes (Eds.)  131
Bertrand Delprat  133
David J.T. Douglas & Rowena H.W. Langston  134
Ruben Fijn, Abel Gyimesi, Karen Krijgsveld & Sjoerd Dirksen  135
L. Gaedicke, K.-H. Loske & F. Bergen  136
T. Grünkorn, J. Blew, T. Coppack, M. Reichenbach, J. von Rönn, A. Schulz, 
H.Timmermann & S. Weitekamp  138
Christer Gunnarsson, Thomas Palo & Jens Rydell  139
Nina Hagner-Wahlsten  140
Jan Olof Helldin, Jens Jung, Jonas Kindberg, Niklas Lindberg,  
Wiebke Neumann, Mattias Olsson, Anna Skarin & Fredrik Widemo  141
Marianne Henningsson, Sofia Jönsson, Johanna Bengtsson Ryberg, Gösta Bluhm, 
Karl Bolin, Bosse Bodén, Kristina Ek, Karin Hammarlund, Inga-Lena Hannukka, 
Carina Johansson, Sanna Mels, Tom Mels, Mats Nilsson, Erik Skärbäck, Patrik 
Söderholm, Åsa Waldo, Ingegärd Widerström & Niklas Åkerman  142
Krzysztof Herman & Joanna Furmankiewicz  144
Tim Hipkiss, Holger Dettki, Frauke Ecke, Edward Moss, Carolin Sendgren 
& Birger Hörnfeldt  145
Gundula Hübner & Johannes Pohl   146
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Johanna Hurst, Horst Schauer-Weisshahn & Robert Brinkmann  147
Fränzi Korner-Nievergelt, Oliver Behr, Ivo Niermann & Robert Brinkmann  148
Angeliki Koulouri, Jacopo Moccia & Nikiforos Plytas  149
Jane Lancaster & Amy Walker  151
Rafaella Lenoir Improta & Enric Pol  152
Gillian Lye, Sarah Canning, Chris Pendlebury, Sally Shenton & Richard Walls  153
Valère Martin, Janine Aschwanden, Herbert Stark, Thomas Steuri &  
Felix Liechti   154
Miguel Mascarenhas, Hugo Costa, Joana Bernardino, José Vieira,  
Carlos Bastos, Maria João Pereira & Carlos Fonseca  155
Roel May, Torgeir Nygård, Espen Lie Dahl & Kjetil Bevanger  156
Antonio-Román Muñoz, Manuela de Lucas, Eva Casado & Miguel Ferrer  157
Paul-Bastian Nagel  158
John Ohlson   159
João Paula, Pedro Pereira, Joana Bernardino, Hugo Costa &  
Miguel Mascarenhas  160
Chris Pendlebury, Jane Lancaster, Sarah Canning, Kate Grellier & Richard Walls 161
Stefan Pettersson  162
Chris Robinson, Gillian Lye, Jane Forrest, Catherine Hommel,  
Chris Pendlebury, Richard Walls  163
Marie Rönnqvist & Anders Enetjärn  164
Antje Seebens, Angelika Fuß, Peter Allgeyer, Henrik Pommeranz, Michael 
Göttsche, Matthias Göttsche, Mathias Mähler³, Hinrich Matthes, Christoph 
Paatsch & Lothar Bach  165
Mikael van Deurs, Thomas M. Grome, Maria Kaspersen, Henrik Jensen,  
Claus Stenberg, Thomas Kirk Sørensen, Josianne Støttrup, Thomas Warnar & 
Henrik Mosegaard  167
Helmut Wendeln, Brigitte Hielen & Dieter Todeskino  168
Kelly Wyness, Sarah Dalrymple & Katherine Arthur  169
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