Wind farm potential is higher in prime habitat for uncommon soil crust lichens

Ecological Processes

Table 2 Number of points with predicted lichen probabilities of occurrence in each land use class for four uncommon soil crust lichen species

		Wind farm potential
		Poor	Marginal	Fair	Good
Acarospora schleicheri
p(occurrence) < 0.60	Natural vegetation	1,458	660	83	8
p(occurrence) < 0.60	Developed or agriculture	150	84	15	1
p(occurrence) > 0.60	Natural vegetation	362	192	58^#	3^#
p(occurrence) > 0.60	Developed or agriculture	33^*	152^*	45^*	10^*
Fuscopannaria cyanolepra
p(occurrence) < 0.60	Natural vegetation	1,610	711	93	9
p(occurrence) < 0.60	Developed or agriculture	141	107	22	0
p(occurrence) > 0.60	Natural vegetation	142	82	18^#	0^#
p(occurrence) > 0.60	Developed or agriculture	27^*	62^*	15^*	9^*
Rhizocarpon diploschistidina
p(occurrence) < 0.60	Natural vegetation	1,746	818	108	11
p(occurrence) < 0.60	Developed or agriculture	174	183	43	9
p(occurrence) > 0.60	Natural vegetation	84	43	32^#	1^#
p(occurrence) > 0.60	Developed or agriculture	12^*	43^*	15^*	2^*
Texosporium sancti-jacobi
p(occurrence) < 0.60	Natural vegetation	1,603	686	83	10
p(occurrence) < 0.60	Developed or agriculture	151	95	19	0
p(occurrence) > 0.60	Natural vegetation	110	141	51^#	2^#
	Developed or agriculture	35^*	138^*	40^*	11^*

Favorable habitat that has already been developed or is in agriculture is indicated by ^*. Favorable natural habitat with fair or good wind farm potential is indicated by ^#; some of these sites currently support wind farms and others do not.