Marine Mammals and Seabirds in Front of Offshore Wind Energy MINOS - Marine Warm-Blooded Animals in North and Baltic Seas

About this book

The MINOS project examines whether large offshore wind energy plants in the German North and Baltic Seas impair or endanger harbour porpoises, seals or seabirds. The project findings presented in this book are useful when evaluating future offshore wind park developments. The MINOS and MINOS+ projects ran from 2002 to 2008 during which the preferential residence areas and migration routes of the endangered species were thoroughly investigated. The projects also examined the hearing and acoustic sensitivity of harbour porpoises and seals. 

Contents

- Harbour porpoises; abundance estimates and seasonal distribution patterns
- History of the German Baltic Sea harbour porpoise acoustic monitoring at the German Oceanographic Museum
- How tolerant are harbour porpoises to underwater sound?
- Determination of space and depth utilization of the Wadden Sea and adjacent offshore areas by harbour seals
- Too loud to talk? Do wind turbines related sounds affect harbour seal communicaton?
- Spatio-temporal patterns of inshore and offshore foraging in Great Cormorants in the southwestern Baltic Sea
- Small-scale temporal variability of seabird distribution patterns in the south-eastern North Sea

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