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Increased food availability at offshore wind farms affects trophic ecology of plaice Pleuronectes platessa Ghent University Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Offshore wind farms (OWFs) and their associated cables, foundations and scour protection are often constructed in soft -sediment environments. This introduction of hard substrate has been shown to have similar effects as artificial reefs by providing food resources and offering increased habitat complexity, thereby aggregating fish around the turbines and foundations. However, as most studies have focused their efforts on fish species that are ...
A wind of change for soft-sediment infauna within operational offshore windfarms Ghent University
In this study, "artificial reef" (AR) impacts of offshore windfarms (OWFs) on the surrounding soft-sediments were investigated. Benthic grab samples were collected at nearby (37.5 m) and distant (500 or 350 m) positions from turbines of two Belgian OWFs (Belwind: monopiles and C-Power: jackets). Higher macrobenthos abundance and species richness were found nearby jacket foundations of C-Power compared to distant positions and differences were ...
Organic matter assimilation by hard substrate fauna in an offshore wind farm area : a pulse-chase study Ghent University
Functional differences in trophic structure of offshore wind farm communities : a stable isotope study Ghent University
Resource niches of co-occurring invertebrate species at an offshore wind turbine indicate a substantial degree of trophic plasticity Ghent University
Cost-effective coastal habitat mapping : detecting intertidal polychaete aggregations with low-altitude photogrammetry Ghent University
Intertidal polychaete aggregations may be protected in the European Union under the Habitats Directive framework as reef habitats. Remote reef mapping remains challenging due to severe and dynamic conditions, as well as cover and spatial resolution requirements. This study (1) evaluated kite aerial photography and low-altitude digital photogrammetry to map and monitor intertidal aggregations of a sessile tube-building polychaete, Lanice ...