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Framework for assessing impacts of pile-driving noise from offshore wind farm construction on a harbour seal population

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01/11/2013
Author
Thompson, P.M.
Hastie, G.D.
Nedwell, J.
Barham, R.
Brookes, K.L.
Cordes, Line S.
Bailey, H.
McLean, Nancy
Keywords
EU habitats directive
Appropriate assessment
Population consequences
Disturbance
Offshore wind farm
Marine mammal
GC Oceanography
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Abstract
Offshore wind farm developments may impact protected marine mammal populations, requiring appropriate assessment under the EU Habitats Directive. We describe a framework developed to assess population level impacts of disturbance from piling noise on a protected harbour seal population in the vicinity of proposed wind farm developments in NE Scotland. Spatial patterns of seal distribution and received noise levels are integrated with available data on the potential impacts of noise to predict how many individuals are displaced or experience auditory injury. Expert judgement is used to link these impacts to changes in vital rates and applied to population models that compare population changes under baseline and construction scenarios over a 25. year period. We use published data and hypothetical piling scenarios to illustrate how the assessment framework has been used to support environmental assessments, explore the sensitivity of the framework to key assumptions, and discuss its potential application to other populations of marine mammals.
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Thompson , P M , Hastie , G D , Nedwell , J , Barham , R , Brookes , K L , Cordes , L S , Bailey , H & McLean , N 2013 , ' Framework for assessing impacts of pile-driving noise from offshore wind farm construction on a harbour seal population ' , Environmental Impact Assessment Review , vol. 43 , pp. 73-85 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2013.06.005
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Environmental Impact Assessment Review
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2013.06.005
ISSN
0195-9255
Type
Journal article
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© 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
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This work was supported by Moray Offshore Renewables Ltd. and Beatrice Offshore Wind Ltd. as part of their consent application.
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URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4774

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