Fouling assemblages on offshore wind power plants and adjacent substrata

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 459-466

  Wilhelmsson, Dan ^a   Malm, Torleif ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

artificial reefs; Baltic Sea; coastal zone management; disturbance; fouling organisms; wind power

Indexed keywords

COASTAL WATER; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FOULING; INVERTEBRATE; POWER PLANT; SEAFLOOR; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TURBINE; WIND POWER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

ALGAE; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 49049102063     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2008.04.020     Document Type: Article

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