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Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) conducted during pre-construction phase of offshore wind farms clearly identified interactions between turbines and marine wildlife, especially seabirds, as a concern requiring further investigation. Displacement and mortality associated with collision could le...
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ftdatacite:10.5281/zenodo.11098938 2024-09-09T19:58:28+00:00 Seabird distribution and vulnerability to wind farms ... Clairbaux, Manon Jessop, Mark 2023 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11098938 https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.11098938 unknown X-ROTOR H2020 Project https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11098939 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 Project deliverable article-journal Text ScholarlyArticle 2023 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1109893810.5281/zenodo.11098939 2024-06-17T08:56:36Z Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) conducted during pre-construction phase of offshore wind farms clearly identified interactions between turbines and marine wildlife, especially seabirds, as a concern requiring further investigation. Displacement and mortality associated with collision could lead to negative impacts on seabird populations, and needs to be assessed on a case-by-case basis irrespective of turbine design. In this study, we collected data on flight behaviour, sensitivity to disturbance and conservation status for 81 seabird species present in European waters before calculating Collision and Displacement Vulnerability Indices to assess the most at risk species to wind turbines. We combined those indices with distributions of 12 commonly occurring seabird species in the North-East Atlantic based on surveys conducted between 1980 and 2018, to generate vulnerability maps for breeding, wintering and migration periods when risk is likely to vary. We shown that auks, loons and ducks are highly ... Text North East Atlantic DataCite Eia ENVELOPE(7.755,7.755,63.024,63.024) |
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Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) conducted during pre-construction phase of offshore wind farms clearly identified interactions between turbines and marine wildlife, especially seabirds, as a concern requiring further investigation. Displacement and mortality associated with collision could lead to negative impacts on seabird populations, and needs to be assessed on a case-by-case basis irrespective of turbine design. In this study, we collected data on flight behaviour, sensitivity to disturbance and conservation status for 81 seabird species present in European waters before calculating Collision and Displacement Vulnerability Indices to assess the most at risk species to wind turbines. We combined those indices with distributions of 12 commonly occurring seabird species in the North-East Atlantic based on surveys conducted between 1980 and 2018, to generate vulnerability maps for breeding, wintering and migration periods when risk is likely to vary. We shown that auks, loons and ducks are highly ... |
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