Offshore wind park monitoring programmes, lessons learned and recommendations for the future

Over a decade of monitoring offshore wind park environmental impact triggered a reflection on the overall objectives and how to best continue with the monitoring programmes. Essentially, basic monitoring has to be rationalised at the level of the likelihood of impact detection, the meaningfulness of...

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Published in:Hydrobiologia 2015-09, Vol.756 (1), p.169-180
Main Authors: Lindeboom, Han, Degraer, Steven, Dannheim, Jennifer, Gill, Andrew B, Wilhelmsson, Dan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
artificial reefs
assemblages
benthos
biodiversity
Biomedical and Life Sciences
communities
Ecology
Environmental impact
farms
Freshwater & Marine Ecology
impacts
industry
Life Sciences
management
managers
Monitoring
Monitoring systems
north-sea
Offshore
Offshore Wind Farm Impacts
power
renewable energy development
scientists
Wind farms
Wind power
Wind power plants
Zoology
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Summary:Over a decade of monitoring offshore wind park environmental impact triggered a reflection on the overall objectives and how to best continue with the monitoring programmes. Essentially, basic monitoring has to be rationalised at the level of the likelihood of impact detection, the meaningfulness of impact size and representativeness of the findings. Targeted monitoring is crucial and should continue to be applied to disentangle processes behind observed impacts, for instance the overarching artificial reef effect caused by wind parks. The major challenge, however, remains to achieve a reliable assessment of the cumulative impacts. A continuous international consultation and collaboration with marine scientists, managers, government officials and industry will be needed to ensure an optimisation of the future monitoring programmes.
ISSN:0018-8158
1573-5117
DOI:10.1007/s10750-015-2267-4