5d2e8625-e609-47f8-9b53-cd8ca225c2f7 eng series ABP Marine Environmental Research Ltd 02380711840 Medina Chambers, Town Quay Medina Chambers, Town Quay Southampton SO14 2AQ United Kingdom enquiries@abpmer.co.uk http://www.abpmer.co.uk pointOfContact 2018-04-04 MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard Version 2.3.5 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326 OGP 2002-2004, School of Ocean Sciences (University of Wales - Bangor), Predicting the displacement of common scoter Melanitta nigra from benthic feeding areas due to offshore windfarms 2007-10-01 publication 2007-01-01 creation 3225 http://data.offshorewind.co.uk/ The environmental impact assessments of most offshore windfarm proposals raise the potential effects on birds as an important issue. Offshore windfarms may affect birds in a number of different ways including mortality due to direct collisions of birds while in flight and mortality induced by habitat loss due to the avoidance by foraging birds of such conspicuous structures. Birds that may be affected by displacement from foraging areas within close proximity to windfarms are likely to be those such as common scoter and common eiders that feed on sedentary or slow-moving bottom-dwelling organisms such as bivalve molluscs and fish-eating birds such as grebes, terns, auks and divers. This present study used field observations and surveys combined with an individuals-based modelling approach to predict the change in over-winter mortality rates of common scoter that would result from the displacement of birds from potential feeding habitat through the avoidance of windfarms in Liverpool Bay. The model code is, however, not specific to Liverpool Bay and can be utilised for other areas provided that suitable data are collected. School of Ocean Sciences, University of Wales - Bangor 01248 383751 01248 716367 University of Wales - Bangor, Menai Bridge Anglesey LL59 5AB United Kingdom michel.kaiser@bangor.ac.uk originator The Crown Estate +44 020 7851 5000 16 New Burlington Place London W1S 2HX United Kingdom enquiries@thecrownestate.co.uk http://www.thecrownestate.co.uk custodian notPlanned pdf Research Research and Development Activity The Crown Estate Renewable Energy Development Phases 2012-05-15T02:00:03 revision Bird counts Bird taxonomy-related abundance per unit area of surface Bird behaviour SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2017-10-18 revision 104 Birds, mammals and reptiles SeaDataNet Agreed Parameter Groups 2017-05-03 revision 24 Wave height and period statistics SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2018-01-12 revision 106 Marine Environmental Data and Information Network Marine Environmental Data and Information Network no conditions apply eng biota environment -9.33312855790775 2.68743327033997 49.0399981037863 60.7672028638749 2002 2004 dataset The project had the following key objectives: 1. To develop a model to assist in predicting the effect of offshore windfarms (individually and cumulatively) on common scoter due to habitat loss and change. 2. To link the non-breeding distribution of common scoter with environmental variables at selected sites. 3. To identify the characteristics of preferred feeding areas for common scoter within these sites. This to include a description of density, species and size classes of prey. https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/270/summary A link to the web service or dataset. https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk A link to the general host site.