Short-term ecological effects of an offshore wind farm in the Dutch coastal zone; Acompilation

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Lindeboom, H J ^a   Kouwenhoven, H J ^b   Bergman, M J N ^c   Bouma, S ^d   Brasseur, S ^a   Daan, R ^c   Fijn, R C ^d   De Haan, D ^a   Dirksen, S ^d   Van Hal, R ^a   Hille Ris Lambers, R ^a   Ter Hofstede, R ^d   Krijgsveld, K L ^d   Leopold, M ^a   Scheidat, M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NoordzeeWind   (Netherlands)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^d Bureau Waardenburg   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

benthos; birds; ecological effects; fishes; marine ecosystems; offshore wind farm; sea mammals

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053517623     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/3/035101     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Akamatsu T, Teilmann J, Miller L A, Tougaard J, Dietz R, Wang D, Wang K, Siebert U and Naito Y 2007 Comparison of echolocation behaviour between coastal and riverine porpoises Deep-Sea Research II 54 290-7 (Pubitemid 46428546)
2. Akamatsu T, Wang D, Wang X and Naito Y 2005 Biosonar behaviour of free-ranging porpoises Proc. R. Soc. B 272 797-801 (Pubitemid 41411113)
3. Beaugrand G 2004 The North Sea regime shift: evidence, causes, mechanisms and consequences Prog. Oceanogr. 60 245-262 (Pubitemid 38537088)
4. Bergman M, Duineveld G, Van 'T Hof P and Wielsma E 2010 Impact of OWEZ wind farm on bivalve recruitment Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Zeeonderzoek (NIOZ) Report number: OWEZ-R-262-T1-20100910 p 80
5. Bergman M J N and van Santbrink J W 2000 Mortality in megafaunal benthic populations caused by trawl fisheries on the Dutch continental shelf in the North Sea in 1994 ICES J. Mar. Sci. 57 1321-32
6. Blew J, Hoffman M, Nehls G and Hennig V 2008 Investigation of the bird collision risk and the responses of harbour porpoises in the offshore wind farms Horns Rev, North Sea and Nysted, Baltic Sea, in Denmark Part 1: Birds. Final report (Universität Hamburg and BioConsult SH) p165
7. Bouma S and Lengkeek W 2009 Development of underwater flora and fauna communities on hard substrates of the offshore wind farm Egmond aan Zee (OWEZ) Bureau Waardenburg bv Report number: 08-220 p 46
8. Brasseur S, Aarts G, Meesters E, van Polanen-Petel T, Dijkman E, Cremer J and Reijnders P 2010 Habitat preferences of harbour seals in the Dutch coastal area: analyses and estimate of effects of offshore wind farms Report number: OWEZ-R-252-T1-20100929 p 55
9. Camphuysen C J 2008 NZG Marine Mammal Database. Sightings of cetaceans in The Netherlands and the Southern North Sea (available at http://home.planet.nl/ ~ camphuys/CetaceaAut2007.html)
10. Crutzen P J 2002 Atmospheric Chemistry in the Anthropocene Challenges of a Changing Earth: Proc. Global Change Open Science Conf. (Amsterdam, July 2001) ed W Steffen, J Jäger, D J Carson and C Bradshaw (Berlin: Springer)
11. Daan R, Mulder M and Bergman M J N 2009 Impact of windfarm OWEZ on the local macrobenthos community Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Zeeonderzoek (NIOZ) Report number: OWEZ-R-261-T1-20091216 p 77
12. Diederichs A, Hennig V and Niels G 2008 Investigation of the bird collision risk and the responses of harbour porpoises in the offshore wind farms Horns Rev, North Sea and Nysted, Baltic Sea, in Denmark Part II: Harbour porpoises (Universität Hamburg and BioConsult SH) p99
13. Duineveld C A, Bergman M J N and Lavaleye M S S 2007 Effects of an area closed to fisheries on the composition of the benthic fauna in the southern North Sea ICES J. Mar. Sci. 64 899-908
14. Green R H 1979 Sampling Design and Statistical Methods for Environmental Biologists (New York: Wiley)
15. Greenstreet S P R, Bryant A D, Broekhuizen N, Hall S J and Heath M R 1997 Seasonal variation in the consumption of food by fish in the North Sea and implications for food web dynamics ICES J. Mar. Sci. 54 243-66
16. Grift R E, Tulp I, Ybema M S and Couperus A S 2004 Base line studies North Sea wind farms: final report pelagic fish RIVO Report number: C047/04 p 77
17. de Haan D, Burggraaf D, Asjes J and Hille Ris Lambers R 2007a Background noise measurements for MEP-NSW Baseline T0 Wageningen IMARES Report number: OWEZ-R-251-T0 20070323, p 57
18. de Haan D, Burggraaf D, Ybema S and Hille Ris Lambers R 2007b Underwater sound emissions and effects of the pile driving of the OWEZ windfarm facility near Egmond aan Zee (Tconstruct) Wageningen IMARES Report number: OWEZ-R-251-Tc 20071029, p 75
19. Hille Ris Lambers R and Ter Hofstede R 2009 Refugium Effects of the MEP-NSW Windpark on Fish: Progress Report 2007 IMARES, Wageningen UR Report number: OWEZ-R-264-T1-20091110 (demersal) p 23
20. Inger R et al 2009 Marine renewable energy: potential benefits to biodiversity? An urgent call for research J. Appl. Ecol. 46 1145-53
21. Jarvis S, Allen J, Proctor N, Crossfield A, Dawes O, Leighton A, McNeill L and Musk W 2004 North Sea wind farms: NSW Lot 1 Benthic fauna. Institute of Estuarine & Coastal Studies, Hull, UK. IECS rep. ZBB607.2F, 2004: pp 1-65
22. Krijgsveld K L, Fijn R C, Heunks C, Van Horssen P W, De Fouw J, Collier M, Poot M J M, Beuker D and Dirksen S 2010 Effect studies Offshore Wind Farm Egmond aan Zee, Progress report on fluxes and behaviour of flying birds covering 2007 & 2008 Bureau Waardenburg Report 09-023 Culemborg p 103
23. Leonhard S B and Pedersen J 2006 Benthic communities at Horns Rev before, during and after Construction of Horns Rev Offshore Wind Farm Vattenfall Report number: Final Report/Annual report 2005, p 134
24. Leopold M F, Camphuysen C J, Lieshout S M J, Ter Braak C J F and Dijkman E M 2004 Baseline studies North Sea wind farms: Lot 5 marine birds in and around the future site Nearshore Windfarm (NSW) Alterra Report number: 1047, p 198
25. Leopold M F, Camphuysen C J, Verdaat H, Dijkman E M, Meesters H W G, Aarts G M, Poot M and Fijn R 2009 Local Birds in and around the Offshore Wind Park Egmond aan Zee (OWEZ) (T-0 & T-1) IMARES, Wageningen UR Report number: OWEZ-R-221-T1-20100329, p 269
26. Lindeboom H J, van Raaphorst W, Beukema J J, Cadée G C and Swennen C 1994 (Sudden) Changes in the North Sea and Wadden Sea: Oceanic influences underestimated? Deutsche Hydrog. Z. Suppl 2 87-100
27. Lindeboom H J, Dijkman E M, Bos O G, Meesters E H, Cremer J S M, De Raad I, Van Hal R and Bosma A 2009 Ecologische Atlas Noordzee ten behoeve van gebiedsbescherming Wageningen IMARES
28. Lindeboom H J and de Groot S J (ed) 1998 The effect of different types of fisheries on the North Sea and Irish Sea benthic ecosystem NIOZ-rapport 1998-1, RIVO-DLO Report C003/98: p404
29. Lindeboom H J, Geurts Van Kessel J and Berkenbosch L 2005 Areas with special ecological values on the Dutch Continental Shelf Report RIKZ/2005.008. Alterra Report number 1203
30. Olsen O T 1883 The Piscatorial Atlas of the North Sea, English and St. George's Channels (London: Taylor and Francis) 50 Maps
31. Petersen I K, Christensen T K, Kahlert J, Desholm M and Fox A D 2006 Final results of bird studies at offshore wind farms at Nysted and Horns Rev, Denmark. commissioned by DONG energy and Vattenfall A/S NERI/ministry of environment NERI Report number: 161
32. Petersen I K and Fox A D 2007 Changes in bird habitat utilization around Horns Rev 1 offshore wind farm, with particular emphasis on Common Scoter. Commissioned by Vattenfall A/S NERI/Ministry of Environment Report number: 36
33. Piet G J, Quirijns F J, Robinson L and Greenstreet S P R 2007 Potential pressure indicators for fishing, and their data requirements ICES J. Mar. Sci. 64 110-21 (Pubitemid 47083234)
34. Pinheiro J C, Bates D M, Debroy S and Sarkar D 2006 nlme: an R package for fitting and comparing Gaussian linear and nonlinear mixed-effects models (available at www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/)
35. R Development Core Team 2009 R: a language and environment for statistical computing. Vienna, Austria: R Foundation for Statistical Computing (see www.R-project.org)
36. Scheidat M et al 2009 Assessment of the Effects of the Offshore Wind Farm Egmond aan Zee (OWEZ) for Harbour Porpoise (comparison T0 and T1) Wageningen IMARES Report number: OWEZ-R-253-T1-20090829, p 55
37. Scheidat M, Tougaard J, Brasseur S, Carstensen J, Van Polanen-Petel T, Teilmann J and Reijnders P 2011 Harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) and wind farms: a case study in the Dutch North Sea Environ. Res. Lett. 6 025102
38. Ter Hofstede R 2008 Effects of a wind farm on the local fish community. A comparative study of field sampling data collected before and after the construction of the Offshore Wind farm Egmond aan Zee (OWEZ) IMARES, Wageningen UR Report number: C057/08, p 17
39. Thomsen F, Lüdemann K, Kafemann R and Piper W 2006 Effects of Offshore Wind Farm Noise on Marine Mammals and Fish (Hamburg: Biola) p62
40. Tien N, Tulp I and Grift R E 2004 Baseline studies wind farm for demersal fish RIKZ Report number: 9M9237 p 37
41. Tougaard J, Henriksen O D and Miller L A 2009 Underwater noise from three types of offshore wind turbines: estimation of impact zones for harbor porpoises and harbor seals J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 125 3766-73
42. Tougaard J, Tougaard S, Jensen R C, Jensen T, Teilman J, Adelung D, Liebsch N and Müller G 2006 Harbour seals at Horns Reef before, during and after construction of Horns Rev Offshore Wind Farm Vattenfall A/S Report number: 5, p 67
43. Van Deurs M, Van Hal R, Tomczak M T, Jónasdóttir S H and Dolmer P 2009 Recruitment of lesser sandeel Ammodytes marinus in relation to density dependence and zooplankton composition Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 381 249-58
44. van Nes E H, Amaro T, Scheffer M and Duineveld G C A 2007 Possible mechanisms for a benthic regime shift in the North Sea MEPS 330 39-47
45. Verdaat H 2007 personal communication
46. Weijerman M, Lindeboom H J and Zuur A F 2005 Regime shifts in marine ecosystems in Northwestern Europe Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 298 21-39 (Pubitemid 41315921)
47. Winter H V, Aarts G and Van Keeken O A 2010 Residence time and behaviour of sole and cod in the Offshore Wind farm Egmond aan Zee (OWEZ) IMARES, Wageningen YR Report number: C038/10, p 50
48. Wood S N 2006 Generalised Additive Modelling: An Introduction in R (London: Chapman and Hall)
49. Wood S N 2009 mgcv: an R package with routines for GAMs and other generalized ridge regression with multiple smoothing parameter selection by GCV or UBRE/AIC. Also GAMMs by REML (available at www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/)
50. Ybema M S, Gloe D and Hille Ris Lambers R 2009 OWEZ-pelagic fish: progression after T1 IMARES Wageningen UR Report number: OWEZ-R-264-T1-20091110 (pelagic) p 32
51. Zuur A F, Ieno E N and Smith G M 2007 Analysing Ecological Data (New York: Springer)