The potential of offshore windfarms to act as marine protected areas – A systematic review of current evidence

By Matthew Ashley, Stephen C. Mangi, L. Rodwell. 2014

133 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Oceanography

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In Ecology

1. S. Hawkins
2. Casper W. Berg
3. A. Gasparatos
4. Louise B. Firth
5. L. Airoldi
6. K. Dafforn
7. Lynette H. L. Loke
8. S. Connell

In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

1. A. Gasparatos
2. M. Mayer‐Pinto
3. Louise B. Firth
4. S. Hawkins

In Oceanography

1. Louise B. Firth
2. S. Hawkins
3. M. Mayer‐Pinto
4. L. Naylor
5. Melanie J. Bishop
6. L. Airoldi
7. R. Morris
8. Lynette H. L. Loke

Citations in the corpus

• Effects of ocean sprawl on ecological connectivity: impacts and solutions (2017, background): “Theseandothersuc-cesses has led to oil rigs and offshore wind farms being proposed as “ de facto marine protected areas ” ( sensu Inger et al., 2009) because they exclude trawl fi shing and their large internal spaces offer shelter to fi sh and other organisms (e.g. Macreadie et al., 2011; Witt et al.”
• Marine Renewable Energy in the Mediterranean Sea: Status and Perspectives (2017, background): “OWFs are not operating for a long time in the marine environment and therefore, the information needed to support planning decisions regarding OWFs acting as MPAs is limited [208].”
• Methane cold seeps as biological oases in the high‐Arctic deep sea (2018, background): “Habitat complexity, the physical substrate and shelter to avoid predation, are all believed to be important factors in attracting organisms to such structures (Stone et al. 1979; Wilson and Elliott 2009; Ashley et al. 2014).”
• Renewable energy and biodiversity: Implications for transitioning to a Green Economy (2017, background): “The delimitation of some sea areas around ocean energy installation as de facto marine reserves could allow the preservation of fishing stocks and other marine life [395,497], which can have significant benefits for biodiversity conservation.”
• Long-term effects of an offshore wind farm in the North Sea on fish communities (2015, background): “Refugium effects have been demonstrated for even relatively small areas for the edible crab Cancer pagurus, pollock Pollachius pollachius, cod G. morhua and lobster Homarus gammarus (Ashley et al. 2014, Moland et al. 2013).”