ICES Workshop on the effects of offshore wind farms on marine benthos (WKEOMB) - Facilitating a closer international collaboration throughout the North Atlantic region
The workshop aimed at bringing experts working in the field of offshore wind farms – benthos together for the first time in order to get an overview on the state of the art. This was achieved by an extended poster session. The second issue of WKEOMB was to identify knowledge gaps and evaluating moni...
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ftawi:oai:epic.awi.de:31163 2024-09-09T19:57:40+00:00 ICES Workshop on the effects of offshore wind farms on marine benthos (WKEOMB) - Facilitating a closer international collaboration throughout the North Atlantic region Dannheim, Jennifer Degraer, Steven Gutow, Lars Birchenough, Silvana Boon, Arjen Brey, Thomas Coates, Delphine Dauvin, Jean-Claude de Roton, Gwenola Derweduwen, Jozefien Gill, Andrew B. Janas, Urszula Kerckhof, Francis Krone, Roland Lozach, Sophie Martin, Georg Mohn, Christian Reichert, Katharina Reubens, Jan Robertson, Mike Rostin, Liis Steen, Henning Wilhelmsson, Dan 2012 https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/31163/ https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.40008 unknown Dannheim, J. orcid:0000-0002-3737-5872 , Degraer, S. , Gutow, L. orcid:0000-0002-9017-0083 , Birchenough, S. , Boon, A. , Brey, T. orcid:0000-0002-6345-2851 , Coates, D. , Dauvin, J. C. , de Roton, G. , Derweduwen, J. , Gill, A. B. , Janas, U. , Kerckhof, F. , Krone, R. , Lozach, S. , Martin, G. , Mohn, C. , Reichert, K. orcid:0000-0001-9595-7443 , Reubens, J. , Robertson, M. , Rostin, L. , Steen, H. and Wilhelmsson, D. (2012) ICES Workshop on the effects of offshore wind farms on marine benthos (WKEOMB) - Facilitating a closer international collaboration throughout the North Atlantic region , ICES Benthos Ecology Working Group Meeting, Sandgerði, Iceland, 7 May 2012 - 11 September 2012 . hdl:10013/epic.40008 EPIC3ICES Benthos Ecology Working Group Meeting, Sandgerði, Iceland, 2012-05-07-2012-09-11 Conference notRev 2012 ftawi 2024-06-24T04:05:07Z The workshop aimed at bringing experts working in the field of offshore wind farms – benthos together for the first time in order to get an overview on the state of the art. This was achieved by an extended poster session. The second issue of WKEOMB was to identify knowledge gaps and evaluating monitoring strategies. This issue was evaluated by disentangling the cause-effect relationships affected by the pressures of the activities during the construction and operation phase of offshore wind farms. All cause-effect relationships were summarized in a schematic presentation. The identifi-cation and a comprehensive overview of cause-effect relationships is a prerequisite for an efficient, hypothesis driven approach towards the disentanglement of the vari-ous effects of offshore wind farms on the marine benthos as well as on the whole eco-system. Further, manifold cause-effect relationships were prioritized based on three main research themes, biological resources – biogeochemical reactions – biodiversity, disentangled by the participants as relevant. An important outcome of the workshop is that benthos receives by far too little atten-tion compared to other ecosystem components (e.g. seabirds, marine mammals), al-though it contributes to a great extent to marine ecosystem services and goods, e.g. biodiversity, long-term carbon storage and trophic supply for higher trophic-level species. A second main outcome of WKEOMB was that legal baseline monitoring merely allows for net-effect descriptions but not for identifying and understanding the underlying processes. Key processes should be, thus, identified and become sub-ject to hypotheses-based target monitoring and/or experimental studies. Conference Object North Atlantic Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI): ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) |
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The workshop aimed at bringing experts working in the field of offshore wind farms – benthos together for the first time in order to get an overview on the state of the art. This was achieved by an extended poster session. The second issue of WKEOMB was to identify knowledge gaps and evaluating monitoring strategies. This issue was evaluated by disentangling the cause-effect relationships affected by the pressures of the activities during the construction and operation phase of offshore wind farms. All cause-effect relationships were summarized in a schematic presentation. The identifi-cation and a comprehensive overview of cause-effect relationships is a prerequisite for an efficient, hypothesis driven approach towards the disentanglement of the vari-ous effects of offshore wind farms on the marine benthos as well as on the whole eco-system. Further, manifold cause-effect relationships were prioritized based on three main research themes, biological resources – biogeochemical reactions – biodiversity, disentangled by the participants as relevant. An important outcome of the workshop is that benthos receives by far too little atten-tion compared to other ecosystem components (e.g. seabirds, marine mammals), al-though it contributes to a great extent to marine ecosystem services and goods, e.g. biodiversity, long-term carbon storage and trophic supply for higher trophic-level species. A second main outcome of WKEOMB was that legal baseline monitoring merely allows for net-effect descriptions but not for identifying and understanding the underlying processes. Key processes should be, thus, identified and become sub-ject to hypotheses-based target monitoring and/or experimental studies. |
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Dannheim, Jennifer Degraer, Steven Gutow, Lars Birchenough, Silvana Boon, Arjen Brey, Thomas Coates, Delphine Dauvin, Jean-Claude de Roton, Gwenola Derweduwen, Jozefien Gill, Andrew B. Janas, Urszula Kerckhof, Francis Krone, Roland Lozach, Sophie Martin, Georg Mohn, Christian Reichert, Katharina Reubens, Jan Robertson, Mike Rostin, Liis Steen, Henning Wilhelmsson, Dan |
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Dannheim, Jennifer Degraer, Steven Gutow, Lars Birchenough, Silvana Boon, Arjen Brey, Thomas Coates, Delphine Dauvin, Jean-Claude de Roton, Gwenola Derweduwen, Jozefien Gill, Andrew B. Janas, Urszula Kerckhof, Francis Krone, Roland Lozach, Sophie Martin, Georg Mohn, Christian Reichert, Katharina Reubens, Jan Robertson, Mike Rostin, Liis Steen, Henning Wilhelmsson, Dan ICES Workshop on the effects of offshore wind farms on marine benthos (WKEOMB) - Facilitating a closer international collaboration throughout the North Atlantic region |
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Dannheim, Jennifer Degraer, Steven Gutow, Lars Birchenough, Silvana Boon, Arjen Brey, Thomas Coates, Delphine Dauvin, Jean-Claude de Roton, Gwenola Derweduwen, Jozefien Gill, Andrew B. Janas, Urszula Kerckhof, Francis Krone, Roland Lozach, Sophie Martin, Georg Mohn, Christian Reichert, Katharina Reubens, Jan Robertson, Mike Rostin, Liis Steen, Henning Wilhelmsson, Dan |
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ICES Workshop on the effects of offshore wind farms on marine benthos (WKEOMB) - Facilitating a closer international collaboration throughout the North Atlantic region |
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ICES Workshop on the effects of offshore wind farms on marine benthos (WKEOMB) - Facilitating a closer international collaboration throughout the North Atlantic region |
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ICES Workshop on the effects of offshore wind farms on marine benthos (WKEOMB) - Facilitating a closer international collaboration throughout the North Atlantic region |
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ICES Workshop on the effects of offshore wind farms on marine benthos (WKEOMB) - Facilitating a closer international collaboration throughout the North Atlantic region |
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ICES Workshop on the effects of offshore wind farms on marine benthos (WKEOMB) - Facilitating a closer international collaboration throughout the North Atlantic region |
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ices workshop on the effects of offshore wind farms on marine benthos (wkeomb) - facilitating a closer international collaboration throughout the north atlantic region |
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Dannheim, J. orcid:0000-0002-3737-5872 , Degraer, S. , Gutow, L. orcid:0000-0002-9017-0083 , Birchenough, S. , Boon, A. , Brey, T. orcid:0000-0002-6345-2851 , Coates, D. , Dauvin, J. C. , de Roton, G. , Derweduwen, J. , Gill, A. B. , Janas, U. , Kerckhof, F. , Krone, R. , Lozach, S. , Martin, G. , Mohn, C. , Reichert, K. orcid:0000-0001-9595-7443 , Reubens, J. , Robertson, M. , Rostin, L. , Steen, H. and Wilhelmsson, D. (2012) ICES Workshop on the effects of offshore wind farms on marine benthos (WKEOMB) - Facilitating a closer international collaboration throughout the North Atlantic region , ICES Benthos Ecology Working Group Meeting, Sandgerði, Iceland, 7 May 2012 - 11 September 2012 . hdl:10013/epic.40008 |
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