Umfang:
Online-Ressource (XIX, 201 p. 153 illus., 205 illus. in color, online resource)
ISBN:
9783658024628
Serie:
SpringerLink
Inhalt:
At present and over the next few years, large-scale windfarms are being installed far off the coast of Germany in the North and Baltic Sea, making a major contribution to electricity generation from renewable energy sources. One of the German governments aims is to ensure the environmentally sound and sustainable development of offshore wind energy. Germanys first offshore test site, alpha ventus, was therefore accompanied from the construction phase to the first years of operation by an intensive environmental research programme, the StUKplus project, financed by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and coordinated by the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency. Marine and ecological aspects have been researched there for more than five years to improve the level of knowledge about the ecological impacts of offshore windfarms. This book provides a broad, richly illustrated overview of applied and new research methods and monitoring techniques. It summarises the key research findings on the impacts on benthic communities, fish, marine mammals and birds, also taking into account underwater sound and sediment measurements. Interpreting the results in the sense of lessons learned, new challenges and perspectives are discussed for future sustainable offshore development in German waters.
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Foreword; Preface; Table of Contents; List of Authors; I Introduction; 1 Current situation of offshore development in Germany and environmentally sound expansion of offshore wind energy; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Legal basis of offshore windfarm approval; 1.3 Marine Facilities Ordinance; 1.4 Approval process; 1.5 Incidental Provisions; Literature; 2 The Spatial Offshore Grid Plan for the German Exclusive Economic Zone; 2.1 Legal mandate; 2.2 Accompanying Strategic Environmental Assessment; 2.3 Results of the Environmental Report; Literature; 3 The alpha ventus offshore test site; 3.1 Introduction
,
3.2 Offshore challenges3.3 Operation of the offshore windfarm; 3.4 The control centre in Norden; 3.5 Offshore power transmission; 3.6 Retrospective: The building period; 3.7 Outlook: alpha ventus as a reference project; 4 The RAVE research initiative: A successful collaborative research, development and demonstration programme; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Actors and organisation; 4.3 Measurements and data; 4.4 Research focus; 4.5 Achievements; Literature; 5 Accompanying ecological research at alpha ventus: The StUKplus research project
,
5.1 Environmentally compatible expansion of offshore wind energy5.2 Identifying environmental risks at the earliest possible stage; 5.3 Learning from the past to optimise future monitoring; Literature; 6 Conservation features: Sensitive species and habitats in the German Exclusive Economic Zone; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Status of species and habitats of the North Sea; 6.3 Impact of windfarms on species and habitats; 6.4 The role of Marine Protected Areas; 6.5 Conclusion; Literature; 7 Challenges, results and perspectives: An interview with Christian Dahlke; II Main section
,
8 Oceanographic and geological research at alpha ventus: Instruments for predicting environmental conditions and interactions8.1 Introduction; 8.1.1 The RAVE Service Project; 8.1.2 Environmental conditions in the North Sea; 8.2 Methods; 8.2.1 Study design: Oceanography; 8.2.2 Study design: Geology; 8.3 Results and discussion; 8.3.1 Currents; 8.3.2 Scouring effects; 8.4 Perspectives; 8.5 Acknowledgements; Literature; 9 Rapid increase of benthic structural and functional diversity at the alpha ventus offshore test site; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Methods; 9.2.1 Study design; 9.2.2 Data collection
,
9.2.3 Data analysis9.3 Results and discussion; 9.3.1 Epifauna; 9.3.2 Infauna; 9.3.3 Biofouling on the foundation structures; 9.3.4 Mobile demersal megafauna; 9.4 Perspectives; 9.5 Acknowledgements; Literature; 10 Effects of the alpha ventus offshore test site on pelagic fish; 10.1 Introduction; 10.1.1 Possible impacts; 10.2 Methods; 10.3 Results and discussion; 10.4 Perspectives; Literature; 11 Effects of the alpha ventus offshore test site on distribution patterns, behaviour and flight heights of seabirds; 11.1 Introduction; 11.1.1 Key species; 11.2 Methods; 11.2.1 Survey design
,
11.2.2 Data analysis
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783658024611
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ecological research at the offshore windfarm "alpha ventus" Wiesbaden : Springer Spektrum, 2014 ISBN 3658024615
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783658024611
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Wirtschaftswissenschaften
,
Geographie
,
Allgemeines
Schlagwort(e):
Nordsee
;
Windpark
;
Tierökologie
;
Windpark
;
Offshore-Technik
;
Umweltverträglichkeitsprüfung
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-658-02462-8
Bookmarklink
