Assessing potential conflicts between offshore wind farms and migration patterns of a threatened shorebird species
International audience Installation of offshore wind farms (OWFs) is becoming increasingly important to ensure a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions; however, OWFs also pose a threat to migrating birds and other wildlife. Informed marine spatial planning is therefore crucial, but individual-based...
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International audience Installation of offshore wind farms (OWFs) is becoming increasingly important to ensure a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions; however, OWFs also pose a threat to migrating birds and other wildlife. Informed marine spatial planning is therefore crucial, but individual-based high-resolution data on bird migration across the sea are currently lacking. We equipped 51 individuals of the near threatened Eurasian curlew Numenius arquata with GPS tags (118 flight tracks) across multiple years and countries to assess their four-dimensional migration routes across the Baltic Sea (i.e. flight tracks, altitudes, phenology and diurnal patterns), to inform collision-risk models and assess potential conflicts with current and future OWFs. Despite a broad-front migration, we identified core migration areas in the southwestern Baltic Sea (and adjacent mainland), largely overlapping with already operating OWFs. Generalized linear models based on a resampling procedure to overcome autocorrelation of tracking data showed that flight altitudes across the sea and during autumn (median: 60 m) were significantly lower than those across land (median: 335 m) and during spring (median across sea: 150; median across land: 576 m). Across the sea, curlews spent 74.8% and 62.2% of their migration times below 300 m during autumn and spring, respectively, indicating a potentially high collision risk with OWFs. The mean flight speed was 56.3 km/h (AE20.3 km/h). Migration intensity was highest at night over a 10-day period during April, suggesting that restricted turbine operation for several days might be a possible management measure. Our study showed that, even for broad-front migrants, it is possible to identify particularly sensitive sea areas deserving special protection enabling a sound marine spatial planning. This is a crucial finding also for various other shorebirds on the East Atlantic Flyway. Further studies are needed to assess the behavioural reactions of migrating birds with respect to OWFs using ... |
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Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU) LIttoral ENvironnement et Sociétés - UMR 7266 (LIENSs) Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-La Rochelle Université (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la COnservation (CESCO) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Institute of Ecology and Botany Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE) Ligue pour la Protection des Oiseaux (LPO) |
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Schwemmer, Philipp Pederson, R. Haecker, K. Bocher, P. Fort, Jérôme Mercker, M. Jiguet, F. Elts, J. Marja, R. Piha, M. Rousseau, P. Garthe, S. |
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Schwemmer, Philipp Pederson, R. Haecker, K. Bocher, P. Fort, Jérôme Mercker, M. Jiguet, F. Elts, J. Marja, R. Piha, M. Rousseau, P. Garthe, S. |
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Assessing potential conflicts between offshore wind farms and migration patterns of a threatened shorebird species |
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Assessing potential conflicts between offshore wind farms and migration patterns of a threatened shorebird species |
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Assessing potential conflicts between offshore wind farms and migration patterns of a threatened shorebird species |
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Assessing potential conflicts between offshore wind farms and migration patterns of a threatened shorebird species |
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Assessing potential conflicts between offshore wind farms and migration patterns of a threatened shorebird species |
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assessing potential conflicts between offshore wind farms and migration patterns of a threatened shorebird species |
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https://hal.science/hal-03876346 https://hal.science/hal-03876346/document https://hal.science/hal-03876346/file/Animal%20Conservation%20-%202022%20-%20Schwemmer%20-%20Assessing%20potential%20conflicts%20between%20offshore%20wind%20farms%20and%20migration%20patterns.pdf https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12817 |
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Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata |
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ftinsu:oai:HAL:hal-03876346v1 2023-05-15T16:08:31+02:00 Assessing potential conflicts between offshore wind farms and migration patterns of a threatened shorebird species Schwemmer, Philipp Pederson, R. Haecker, K. Bocher, P. Fort, Jérôme Mercker, M. Jiguet, F. Elts, J. Marja, R. Piha, M. Rousseau, P. Garthe, S. Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU) LIttoral ENvironnement et Sociétés - UMR 7266 (LIENSs) Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-La Rochelle Université (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la COnservation (CESCO) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Institute of Ecology and Botany Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE) Ligue pour la Protection des Oiseaux (LPO) 2022 https://hal.science/hal-03876346 https://hal.science/hal-03876346/document https://hal.science/hal-03876346/file/Animal%20Conservation%20-%202022%20-%20Schwemmer%20-%20Assessing%20potential%20conflicts%20between%20offshore%20wind%20farms%20and%20migration%20patterns.pdf https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12817 en eng HAL CCSD Wiley info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1111/acv.12817 hal-03876346 https://hal.science/hal-03876346 https://hal.science/hal-03876346/document https://hal.science/hal-03876346/file/Animal%20Conservation%20-%202022%20-%20Schwemmer%20-%20Assessing%20potential%20conflicts%20between%20offshore%20wind%20farms%20and%20migration%20patterns.pdf doi:10.1111/acv.12817 info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 1367-9430 Animal Conservation https://hal.science/hal-03876346 Animal Conservation, 2022, ⟨10.1111/acv.12817⟩ flight speed phenology spatio-temporal autocorrelation biologging marine spatial planning Baltic Sea Eurasian curlew flight altitude [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology [SDV.BA.ZV]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Vertebrate Zoology info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2022 ftinsu https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12817 2023-03-01T17:27:51Z International audience Installation of offshore wind farms (OWFs) is becoming increasingly important to ensure a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions; however, OWFs also pose a threat to migrating birds and other wildlife. Informed marine spatial planning is therefore crucial, but individual-based high-resolution data on bird migration across the sea are currently lacking. We equipped 51 individuals of the near threatened Eurasian curlew Numenius arquata with GPS tags (118 flight tracks) across multiple years and countries to assess their four-dimensional migration routes across the Baltic Sea (i.e. flight tracks, altitudes, phenology and diurnal patterns), to inform collision-risk models and assess potential conflicts with current and future OWFs. Despite a broad-front migration, we identified core migration areas in the southwestern Baltic Sea (and adjacent mainland), largely overlapping with already operating OWFs. Generalized linear models based on a resampling procedure to overcome autocorrelation of tracking data showed that flight altitudes across the sea and during autumn (median: 60 m) were significantly lower than those across land (median: 335 m) and during spring (median across sea: 150; median across land: 576 m). Across the sea, curlews spent 74.8% and 62.2% of their migration times below 300 m during autumn and spring, respectively, indicating a potentially high collision risk with OWFs. The mean flight speed was 56.3 km/h (AE20.3 km/h). Migration intensity was highest at night over a 10-day period during April, suggesting that restricted turbine operation for several days might be a possible management measure. Our study showed that, even for broad-front migrants, it is possible to identify particularly sensitive sea areas deserving special protection enabling a sound marine spatial planning. This is a crucial finding also for various other shorebirds on the East Atlantic Flyway. Further studies are needed to assess the behavioural reactions of migrating birds with respect to OWFs using ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata Institut national des sciences de l'Univers: HAL-INSU Animal Conservation |