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Assessing the effects of wind farms on soil organic carbon     
Yazarlar
Özge Işık Pekkan
Müzeyyen Anıl Şenyel Kürkçüoğlu
Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Saye Nihan Çabuk
Eskişehir Teknik Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Talha Aksoy
Burcu Yılmazel
Eskişehir Teknik Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Tuncay Küçükpehlivan
Ahmet Dabanlı
Alper Çabuk
Eskişehir Teknik Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Prof. Dr. Mehmet ÇETİN
Kastamonu Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Özet
Wind energy is considered one of the cleanest and most sustainable resources among renewable energy sources. However, several negative environmental impacts can be observed, unless suitable sites are selected for the establishment of wind farms. The aim of this study is to determine the change in the soil organic carbon (SOC) stock resulting from land cover changes that were caused by wind farm establishments in the Karaburun peninsula. Within the scope of the study, remote sensing and geographic information system technologies were utilized. Maximum likelihood algorithm, one of the supervised classification techniques, was used to classify the land cover, and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) analyses were performed to determine land cover changes. The findings were correlated with the "Turkey Soil Organic Carbon Project" data. As a result, depending on the establishment of wind farms in the Karaburun Peninsula, a total decrease of 18,330.57 tons of SOC in the study area between 2000 and 2019 was determined. It should be taken into consideration that besides many other negative effects (effects on human health, effects on the ecosystem, effects on animals, etc.), land cover changes caused by wind farms may indirectly cause important problems such as climate change. Recently, this situation shows that there is an important dilemma in terms of current implementations. Wind farms are the most invested renewable energy sources and alternative energy supply to fossil fuels in terms of preventing climate change. However, the results of this study have reviewed that lack of proper approaches and methods to establish wind farms may result in various problems such as physical, chemical, and biological degradations and an increase in the amount of atmospheric carbon. Consequently, the investments in renewable energy sources should be comprehensively reevaluated in terms of current technologies, quality in the scope of environmental impact assessment and strategic environmental assessment processes, legal regulations and national policies, long-term environmental costs, etc.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Soil organic carbon,Wind farm,Remote sensing,Geographical information systems,Land cover,use change
Makale Türü Özgün Makale
Makale Alt Türü SSCI, AHCI, SCI, SCI-Exp dergilerinde yayımlanan tam makale
Dergi Adı Environmental Science and Pollution Research
Dergi ISSN 0944-1344
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler SCI-Expanded
Dergi Grubu Q1
Makale Dili İngilizce
Basım Tarihi 01-2021
Cilt No 28
Sayfalar 18216 / 18233
Doi Numarası 10.1007/s11356-020-11777-x
Makale Linki http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-11777-x
BM Sürdürülebilir Kalkınma Amaçları
Atıf Sayıları
WoS 53
Assessing the effects of wind farms on soil organic carbon

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