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Moskeland
DNV AS has carried out an Environmental benthos survey at the Equinor-operated wind farm Hywind Scotland, situated 25 km off the coast of Peterhead in Scotland, UK. There are still uncertainties regarding the potential environmental impact from a floating wind park due to the floating technology being a relative novel development solution. Using the world’s first operational floating offshore…
- Journal Article:
Van de Pol et al.
Increased pressures from human activities may cause cumulative ecological effects on marine ecosystems. Increasingly, the study of ecosystem services is applied in the marine environment to assess the full effects of human activities on the ecosystem and on the benefits it provides. However, in the marine environment, such integrated studies have yet to move from qualitative and scorebased to…
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Mavraki
In the North Sea, the offshore wind farm (OWF) industry is rapidly developing, with new wind farms being under construction, licenced or planned. These installations induce changes to the marine environment, by adding artificial hard substrates into soft-bottom areas. Multiple vertebrate and invertebrate species are attracted to these structures altering the biodiversity, arising concerns…
- Journal Article:
Suberg et al.
A combination of scientific, economic, technological and policy drivers is behind a recent upsurge in the use of marine autonomous systems (and accompanying miniaturized sensors) for environmental mapping and monitoring. Increased spatial–temporal resolution and coverage of data, at reduced cost, is particularly vital for effective spatial management of highly dynamic and heterogeneous shelf…
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Tosh et al.
The UK Government is committed to the conservation of indigenous biodiversity as well as renewable energy targets. Renewable electricity currently represents nearly 19% of total electricity consumption with a target of 40% by 2020. At present there are 34 operational onshore wind energy developments (> 1 turbine) in Northern Ireland consisting of 313 turbines with a capacity of 533.…
- Journal Article:
Wang et al.
This study investigated naturally-restored plant communities on wind farm slopes and analyzed the effects of various habitat factors on the plant diversity. The findings provide a technical support for the ecological restoration of mountainous slopes.Twenty-one slopes on five wind farms were selected and the characteristics of the habitat, including slope position, slope aspect, slope gradient…
- Report:
Sustainable Development Commission
This study attempts to answer whether additional and novel compensation measures could be put in place to enhance the overall coherence of the Natura 2000 network and / or the conservation status of species and habitats within it.
- Journal Article:
Bishop et al.
The growing number of artificial structures in estuarine, coastal and marine environments is causing “ocean sprawl”. Artificial structures do not only modify marine and coastal ecosystems at the sites of their placement, but may also produce larger-scale impacts through their alteration of ecological connectivity - the movement of organisms, materials and energy between habitat units within…
- Book Chapter:
Pezy et al.
Since the beginning of the 2000’, the French government ambition was to have an offshore wind production formed 40% of the renewable electricity in 2030. Three calls tenders of Offshore Wind Farms (OWFs) construction have been pronounced since 2011. However, no offshore wind farm (OWF) had been constructed at the end of 2017 due to long administrative procedures and numerous appeals in justice…
- Book Chapter:
Niquil et al.
Environmental impact assessment (EIA) studies for offshore wind farm projects endeavour to consider the sensitivity of ecological compartments (benthos, fish, birds and marine mammals) to potential pressures/changes occurring in the ecosystem structure and functioning. EIA is expected to be conducted considering an integrated ecosystem approach, which is still a target to reach. In this…
- Journal Article:
Abdel-Basset et al.
Developments in wind energy projects have received much interest in the last decade due to the encouragement of sustainable development policies. Consequently, the number of wind energy projects has rapidly increased so that wind energy is an important part of an integrated power system. The success of an offshore wind energy project depends on the selection of the optimal offshore wind power…
- Journal Article:
Warren and Wiebe
To convert measurements of backscattered acoustic energy to estimates of abundance and taxonomic information about the zooplankton community, all of the scattering processes in the water column need to be identified and their scattering contributions quantified. Zooplankton populations in the eastern edge of Wilkinson Basin in the Gulf of Maine in the Northwest Atlantic were surveyed in…
- Journal Article:
Ross and Lueck
The first near coincident measurements of acoustic backscatter and temperature/velocity microstructure confirm theoretical predictions that oceanic turbulence scatters sound. Not only are acoustic backscatter at 307 kHz and turbulent microstructure unambiguously correlated on a patch‐by‐patch basis, but measured scattering amplitudes agree with theoretical predictions for scattering from…
- Journal Article:
Maandal et al.
The technical and economic assessments for emerging renewable energy technologies, specifically offshore wind energy, is critical for their improvement and deployment. These assessments serve as one of the main bases for the construction of offshore wind farms, which would be beneficial to the countries gearing toward a sustainable future such as the Philippines. This study presents the…
- Book Chapter:
Wernberg et al.
Kelp forests are extensive underwater habitats that range along 25% of the world’s coastlines, providing valuable resources, habitat, and services for coastal communities. They grow best in cold, nutrient-rich water, where they attain some of the highest rates of primary production of any natural ecosystem. Kelps exhibit a great diversity of growth forms and life strategies, with the largest…
- Book Chapter:
Giuliani and Bellucci
Salt marshes are middle to high latitude intertidal wetlands of great value. They play a major role in coastal defense, wildlife conservation, and as a key sink/source of organic material and nutrients, and are vitally important for a wide range of marine communities. Salt marshes also function as a sink for pollutants that would otherwise damage the surrounding environment. They also…
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Morgera
The ecosystem approach can be considered the landmark regulatory strategy of the Convention on Biological Diversity and other biodiversity-related conventions. But legal scholarship is surprisingly thin with regard to the status and implications of the ecosystem approach. This chapter discusses the evolution of the ecosystem approach under the Convention on Biological Diversity, and analyses…
- Book:
Sheppard
World Seas: An Environmental Evaluation, Second Edition, Volume Three: Ecological Issues and Environmental Impacts covers global issues relating to our seas, including a biological description of the coast and continental shelf waters, the development and use of the coast, landfills and their effects, pollutant discharges over time, the effects of over-fishing, and the management methods and…
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Palko
North Carolina has many rivers, tributaries, and back barrier sounds that form complex estuarine systems, the largest of which is the Albemarle Pamlico Estuarine System. The extensive nature of North Carolina estuaries’ vertical and horizontal salinity gradients makes this region a suitable subject for the exploration of salinity gradient energy as an alternative clean energy source.…
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Sayad et al.
The annual growth of global energy demand and the associated environmental impacts (EIs) has an important role in the large sustainable and green global energy transition. Renewable energy systems have been attracting substantial economic, environmental, and technical attention throughout the last decade, while some have been in the market for almost a century. However, even renewable energy…
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