Assessing the impact of marine wind farms on birds through movement modelling

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 9, Issue 74, 2012, Pages 2120-2130

  Masden, Elizabeth A ^a   Reeve, Richard ^a   Desholm, Mark ^c   Fox, Anthony D ^c   Furness, Robert W ^b   Haydon, Daniel T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Barriers to movement; Collision; Common eider; Environmental impact assessment; Nysted offshore wind farm; Somateria mollissima

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC UTILITIES; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; OFFSHORE POWER PLANTS; TURBINES;

BARRIERS TO MOVEMENT; COLLISION; COMMON EIDER; OFFSHORE WIND FARMS; SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA;

WIND POWER;

ARTICLE; BIRD; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FLIGHT; NONHUMAN; PLANNING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA; THEORETICAL MODEL; WIND POWER;

AVES; SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA;

EID: 84866158272     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2012.0121     Document Type: Article

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