I'm sure there's been studies on this, would be interesting to see them.
Once you consider heat from the sun, and hunting birds looking at small prey in open fields I would not be surprised that the panels provide shelter that the wildlife uses.
[0]: https://www.planet.com/explorer/#/mosaic/global_monthly_2019...
Of course it doesn't make sense to conserve land that is having its water cut off.
This is very short sighted.
Restoring topsoil at scale is beyond current technology.
For example, the Sahara desert was fertile before it was over farmed, then abandoned.
https://www.livescience.com/4180-sahara-desert-lush-populate...
Future generations may find better uses for this land than solar farming, but probably not if we ruin it now.
Even before then, ruining the land with reckless solar installations could lead to further desertification in neighboring areas. Again, this is still happening with the Sahara (though not because of solar):
https://www.quora.com/How-is-the-Sahara-Desert-continuously-...
To be clear, we need to build solar as fast as possible, but not at the cost of needlessly wrecking the planet even more.
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“300 to 5,500 years ago: Retreating monsoonal rains initiate desiccation in the Egyptian Sahara, prompting humans to move to remaining habitable niches in Sudanese Sahara. The end of the rains and return of desert conditions throughout the Sahara after 5,500 coincides with population return to the Nile Valley and the beginning of pharaonic society.”
The Sahara example isn't applicable because this is land that was made suitable for farming through artificial means.
You also seem to think solar farms ruin the land. I explicitly talk about doing solar in such a way that would qualify for the conservation program that improves land.