Data from: Quantifying pursuit-diving seabirds' associations with fine-scale physical features in tidal stream environments ...
The rapid increase in the number of tidal stream turbine arrays will create novel and unprecedented levels of anthropogenic activity within habitats characterized by horizontal current speeds exceeding 2 ms−1. However, the potential impacts on pursuit-diving seabirds exploiting these tidal stream en...
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| Language: | English |
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Dryad
2017
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.9r76h https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.9r76h |
| Summary: | The rapid increase in the number of tidal stream turbine arrays will create novel and unprecedented levels of anthropogenic activity within habitats characterized by horizontal current speeds exceeding 2 ms−1. However, the potential impacts on pursuit-diving seabirds exploiting these tidal stream environments remain largely unknown. Identifying similarities between the fine-scale physical features (100s of metres) suitable for array installations, and those associated with foraging pursuit-diving seabirds, could identify which species are most vulnerable to either collisions with moving components, or displacement from these installations. A combination of vessel-based observational surveys, Finite Volume Community Ocean Model outputs and hydroacoustic seabed surveys provided concurrent measures of foraging distributions and physical characteristics at a fine temporal (15 min) and spatial (500 m) resolution across a tidal stream environment suitable for array installations, during both breeding and ... : orkney_fallofwarness_seabirdenvironmentConcurrent information on seabird distributions and environmental variables at 500m and 15min resolution in the Fall Of Warness, Orkney, UK.FOW_Seabirdenvironment_Data.csv ... |
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