Negative long term effects on harbour porpoises from a large scale offshore wind farm in the Baltic - Evidence of slow recovery

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Teilmann, Jonas ^a   Carstensen, Jacob ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

BACI design; echolocation; long term effect; Nysted Offshore Wind Farm; offshore wind farm; Phocoena phocoena; porpoise detector; static acoustic monitoring; T POD

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FISHERIES; OFFSHORE POWER PLANTS; OFFSHORE WIND FARMS; UNDERWATER AUDITION;

ACOUSTIC MONITORING; BACI DESIGN; ECHOLOCATION; LONG-TERM EFFECTS; PHOCOENA PHOCOENA; T-POD;

MAMMALS;

ARTIFICIAL REEF; ECHOLOCATION; FISHING EFFORT; HARBOR; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PORPOISE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WIND FARM;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

PHOCOENA PHOCOENA; PHOCOENIDAE;

EID: 84871830659     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/045101     Document Type: Article

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