About the Authors

Camille Leroux

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Camille.leroux@edu.mnhn.fr, camille.leroux@auddice.com

Affiliations Centre d’Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université, Station Marine, Concarneau, France, Auddicé biodiversité– ZAC du Chevalement, Roost-Warendin, France

Kévin Barré

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre d’Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université, Station Marine, Concarneau, France

Nicolas Valet

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Auddicé biodiversité– ZAC du Chevalement, Roost-Warendin, France

Christian Kerbiriou

Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Kerbiriou, Isabelle Le Viol

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre d’Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université, Station Marine, Concarneau, France

Isabelle Le Viol

Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Kerbiriou, Isabelle Le Viol

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre d’Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université, Station Marine, Concarneau, France

Competing Interests

This work is part of the first author’s PhD research, which was co-supervised by all the co-authors from the National Museum of Natural History (MNHN) and Auddicé biodiversité. Auddicé biodiversité is an environmental consultancy that conducts wind farm impact assessment studies. At the time of submission two of the authors - Camille Leroux and Nicolas Valet - were working at Auddicé biodiversité. In addition, Kévin Barré was funded by ADEME, a public agency promoting renewable energies. Members of the wind energy sector financed part of the bat recorders and provided some technical data and expertise on wind turbine operation and features, as stated above. Thus, the authors declare a potential conflict of interest. However, sampling design, acoustic data collection, analysis and writing were conducted only by the authors, and members of the wind energy sector did not view the draft before submission. Furthermore, sampling design and sampling sites were determined independently from Auddicé biodiversité activities and identification of bat echolocation calls and bat activity measures were provided by TADARIDA software, a MNHN web portal. The authors certify that the collaboration did not interfere with the stated hypothesis, the way it was tested or the interpretations and conclusions. Authors take full responsibility for the integrity of the study.