Barriers to movement: Modelling energetic costs of avoiding marine wind farms amongst breeding seabirds

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1085-1091

  Masden, Elizabeth A ^a   Haydon, Daniel T ^a   Fox, Anthony D ^b   Furness, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Avoidance behaviour; Barrier effect; Energetic cost; Seabird colonies; Species specific assessment; Wind farm

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL COSTS; ADVERSE WEATHER; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOUR; BARRIER EFFECTS; ENERGETIC COSTS; EXTRA FLIGHTS; FOOD ABUNDANCE; MARINE WINDS; PER UNIT; WIND FARM; WING LOADING;

ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FARMS; WIND POWER;

COSTS;

AVOIDANCE REACTION; BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SITE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MOVEMENT; SEABIRD; WIND FARM;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FLIGHT; FORELIMB; LOAD CARRYING CAPACITY; MARINE WIND; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SEABIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WIND; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; DIET; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; FLYING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; VETERINARY;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF ENERGY RESOURCES; DIET; ENERGY METABOLISM; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WIND; WING;

LARIDAE; PHALACROCORACIDAE;

EID: 77954035991     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2010.01.016     Document Type: Article

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