Benthic effects of offshore renewables: identification of knowledge gaps and urgently needed research

J Dannheim, L Bergström… - ICES Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
As the EU's commitment to renewable energy is projected to grow to 20% of energy
generation by 2020, the use of marine renewable energy from wind, wave and tidal …

[HTML][HTML] Towards understanding environmental and cumulative impacts of floating wind farms: Lessons learned from the fixed-bottom offshore wind farms

F Rezaei, P Contestabile, D Vicinanza… - Ocean & Coastal …, 2023 - Elsevier
Renewable energy sectors have been rapidly growing over the last three decades due to
the environmental concerns regarding fossil fuels and increasing demand of energy by …

[HTML][HTML] Turbid wakes associated with offshore wind turbines observed with Landsat 8

Q Vanhellemont, K Ruddick - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2014 - Elsevier
In the last decade, the number of offshore wind farms has increased rapidly. Offshore wind
farms are typically constructed in near-shore, shallow waters. These waters can be highly …

A decline in primary production in the North Sea over 25 years, associated with reductions in zooplankton abundance and fish stock recruitment

E Capuzzo, CP Lynam, J Barry… - Global change …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Phytoplankton primary production is at the base of the marine food web; changes in primary
production have direct or indirect effects on higher trophic levels, from zooplankton …

[HTML][HTML] Secchi disk depth: A new theory and mechanistic model for underwater visibility

ZP Lee, S Shang, C Hu, K Du, A Weidemann… - Remote sensing of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Secchi disk depth (Z SD) is a measure of water transparency, whose interpretation has wide
applications from diver visibility to studies of climate change. This transparency has been …

A research review of interventions to increase the persistence and resilience of coral reefs

National Academies of Sciences, Division on Earth… - 2019 - books.google.com
Coral reef declines have been recorded for all major tropical ocean basins since the 1980s,
averaging approximately 30-50% reductions in reef cover globally. These losses are a result …

Environmental factors influencing primary productivity of the forest-forming kelp Laminaria hyperborea in the northeast Atlantic

DA Smale, A Pessarrodona, N King, MT Burrows… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Rates and drivers of primary productivity are well understood for many terrestrial
ecosystems, but remain poorly resolved for many marine ecosystems, particularly those …

Biodiversity assessment across a dynamic riverine system: A comparison of eDNA metabarcoding versus traditional fish surveying methods

J Hallam, EL Clare, JI Jones, JJ Day - Environmental DNA, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
While many studies have considered the ability of eDNA to assess animal communities in
lacustrine settings, fewer have considered riverine systems, particularly those spanning the …

Estimating lake temperature profile and evaporation losses by leveraging MODIS LST data

G Zhao, H Gao, X Cai - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Global lake evaporation is a critical component of the terrestrial water cycle. Accurate
quantification of lake evaporation dynamics is of high importance for understanding lake …

Decrease in water clarity of the southern and central North Sea during the 20th century

E Capuzzo, D Stephens, T Silva, J Barry… - Global change …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Light in the marine environment is a key environmental variable coupling physics to marine
biogeochemistry and ecology. Weak light penetration reduces light available for …