Although very few measurements of ecological impacts, or mitigation efforts, from large-scale solar projects are published, there is a rich scientific literature for other land disturbances, such as agriculture or suburban sprawl. Farmland management practices have been found to have a large effect on ecological impacts.For example, practices such as crop-rotation, rest-rotation, non-till farming,intercropping, crop-margin habitat maintenance, and mechanical rather than chemical weed management improve biodiversity and habitat quality within the cropland and on nearby lands [63–65]. The main metric for impacts to wildlife will likely be risk of population decline, based on computational models of ecosystem dynamics, e.g., see [66]. An arising concept in restoration ecology is “connectivity” of the land, i.e., how well the wildlife can move across tracts of land and interact. Connectivity is a promising metric to gauge disturbance to a habitat from regional patterns in land use [67], and will be particularly important for large-scale solar energy development