Offshore windmill farms: Threats to or possibilities for the marine environment

Ambio

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 75-80

  Petersen, Jens Kjerulf ^a,b   Malm, Torleif ^c  

^a D   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HABITAT CONSERVATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; OFFSHORE STRUCTURE; RARE SPECIES; RARITY; REEF;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 33646436435     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447(2006)35[75:OWFTTO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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68. First submitted 24 Apr. 2005. Accepted for publication 25 Oct. 2005.