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- Report:
Barrow Offshore Wind
… indicate that the underwater noise is unlikely to cause a behavioural (avoidance) response in marine fish and marine mammals in the region. Oceanography: In all cases wakes could be traced out to a distance … showed a very similar pattern, to surveys before and during construction, in the abundance and distribution of birds in the vicinity of Barrow Offshore Wind Farm. The results indicate that the …
- Report:
Degraer et al.
… wind farm project. This imposes a monitoring programme to assess the potential impacts on the marine environment. These assessments enable the authorities to impose mitigation measures or even halt the activities in case of extreme damage to the marine ecosystem. The monitoring programme equally allows understanding and evaluating the … will aid a future accurate bird mortality assessment. Future monitoring of the local seabird distribution will further increase the likelihood of displacement effect detection and will allow …
- Report:
Leopold et al.
… This report presents the final results of a four-year study of seabird distribution patterns in and around the first offshore wind farm in Dutch North Sea waters. This … birds within the wind farm and in the surrounding area, while taking into account the general distribution patterns in the general area. The latter were modelled as a function of distance to … strata OWEZ, PAWP, Anchorage, and the remaining Reference area. Total numbers of all birds and marine mammals observed per survey are given in Appendix 2. … 2011-01-01 …
- Journal Article:
Brookes et al.
… Marine construction projects, such as offshore wind farms and port developments often use … techniques that produce significant levels of noise underwater, which could have effects on marine wildlife. Marine Scotland is the government body responsible for regulating these … east coast in 2017, using piled foundations. To monitor for potential broad scale changes in distribution of protected cetacean species during construction activities, Marine Scotland have …
- Report:
Arso Civil et al.
… collaborative project between the University of Aberdeen Lighthouse Field Station and the Sea Mammal Research Unit at the University of St Andrews. The main distributional range of this … 2017, and a summary of the photo-identification survey trips in that area conducted by the Sea Mammal Research Unit in 2018 . The total number of bottlenose dolphins using the Firth of Tay and …
- Thesis:
O'Brien
… hope for a low-carbon electric grid, this climate solution may simultaneously threaten marine wildlife and ecosystems in ways that are not fully understood. In this analysis, I support … gull. Additionally, I leverage geospatial tools to assess the representativeness of marine wildlife abundance levels in project WOW field sites (Vineyard Wind and Empire Wind) … in other wind energy lease sites. To conduct this analysis, I acquired species-specific distribution products from the OBISSEAMAP model repository. After processing these distribution …
- Journal Article:
Elmer
… Underwater noise is a severe annoyance and danger to marine life. The innovative HSD (hydro sound damper) leads to an effective general method to … noise. HSD was developed and patented between 2007 and 2010 by the author to reduce general marine noise and especially offshore piling noise. The theory and the acoustical background of … The resonance frequency of the HSD-elements, the optimum damping rate for impact noise, the distribution and the effective frequency range can be fully controlled. Offshore tests and serial …
- Journal Article:
Zhang et al.
… farm datasets are commercially available via energy industries, records of the exact spatial distribution of individual wind turbines and their construction trajectories are rather … threshold algorithm in the Google Earth Engine platform to identify the spatiotemporal distribution of global OWTs. By 2019, 6,924 wind turbines were constructed in 14 coastal nations. … could further our understanding of the environmental impact of OWTs and support effective marine spatial planning for sustainable development. … 2021-07-27 …
- Journal Article:
Skov and Thomsen
… Phocoena phocoena has become a focal species in relation to management of human activities and marine habitat conservation efforts. In this study, acoustic and visual time series of harbour … as the survey data. Spatial modelling based on selected key predictor variables showed the distribution of harbour porpoises to alternate between 2 upwelling cells depending on the …
- Report:
Piet et al.
… of offshore wind energy. The objectives of this study are to evaluate for the North Sea marine ecosystem the knowledge base to assess the cumulative impacts of all the main human … we discuss the possibilities to apply CIA in the context of an ecosystem-based approach to marine spatial planning aimed at achieving existing environmental marine policy goals. This report provides an overview of the state-of-the-art knowledge to assess …
- Journal Article:
Skov et al.
… Data on the distribution of cetaceans and seabirds in the Northeast Atlantic sampled in late summer of 1987 and 1989 were analysed. The distribution of ten species of cataceans and eleven species of seabirds could be summarized into … as reflections of habitat entities, but rather as a first insight into common features to the distribution of cetaceans and birds in the study area. A clearer distribution overlap between …
- Journal Article:
Lagerquist et al.
… indigenous harvesting, fishing gear entanglements, ship strikes, naval exercises, siting of marine renewable energy facilities). We applied satellite tags to 35 gray whales in the eastern … potential responses to climate change, and exposure to anthropogenic activities in the marine environment. … 2019-05-01 …
- Report:
Perrow and Skeate
… undertaken during the pupping period in order to improve the accuracy of the pup counts. The distribution of haul out sites also changed between years, although both in 2002 and 2003 the … have reported a large sandbar appearing parallel to Scroby, which would indicate that sand distribution has changed. The seals may have chosen different haul out sites in 2003 because, as … is that the seals prefer hauling out on some substrate types more than others, and that the distribution of these substrates changed between years. This example highlights an important …
- Report:
Brasseur et al.
… This study describes the abundance and distribution of harbour seals, Phoca vitulina , in the Netherlands in relation to environmental … but information on the seals’ habitat use (preference) and on which factors influence their distribution (both natural and anthropogenic) is lacking. In the current study, we utilise data … of the large shipping routes. Pile driving activities could have influenced the seals distribution: Pile driving for OWEZ and then Prinses Amalia Wind Park took up almost a year. The …
- Journal Article:
Gilles et al.
… species in the North Sea. There is a growing demand for predictive models of porpoise distribution to assess the extent of potential conflicts and to support conservation and … models to predict harbour porpoise density and to investigate seasonal shifts in porpoise distribution in relation to several static and dynamic predictors. Sightings were collected …
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Brodie et al.
… offshore wind structures on ocean circulation and stratification and their relationship to the distribution and density of copepods and the suitability of foraging habitat for the critically … here from the results of published research on the oceanographic conditions, copepod distribution, and NARW distribution and habitat use in the Western North Atlantic. The topic of climate change and …
- Book Chapter:
Hastie et al.
… study used GPS/global system for mobile communication tags on 23 harbor seals that provided distribution and activity data; the closest range of individual seals to piling varied from 6.65 …
- Journal Article:
Leunissen et al.
… Using automated echolocation detectors in Lyttelton Harbour (New Zealand), we studied the distribution of Hector's dolphins using a gradient sampling design over 92 days within which …
- Journal Article:
Thompson et al.
… from installation activities. We use these findings to highlight how uncertainty over cetacean distribution and the scale of disturbance effects constrains opportunities for B-A-C-I studies. …
- Journal Article:
Salisbury et al.
… Virginia coast to the continental shelf to better describe the seasonal occurrence and spatial distribution of right whales in this area. We found that whales were acoustically detected in …
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