Katrin Wollny-goerke

Marine Mammals and Seabirds in Front of Offshore Wind Energy: Minos - Marine Warm-Blooded Animals in North and Baltic Seas Katrin Wollny-goerke 2008 edition

Jacket Description/Back: 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 research results should make the necessary knowledge available, in order to be able to evaluate the future offshore wind park development. In the projects MINOS and MINOS+ - running time 2002 to 2008 - were therefore above all the preferential residence areas and migration routes of the endangered animal species investigated. Beyond that, hearing and acoustic sensitivity of harbour porpoises and seals were examined. Table of 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. Description for Sales People: 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 research results should make the necessary knowledge available, in order to be able to evaluate the future offshore wind park development. In the projects MINOS and MINOS+ - running time 2002 to 2008 - were therefore above all the preferential residence areas and migration routes of the endangered animal species investigated. Beyond that, hearing and acoustic sensitivity of harbour porpoises and seals were examined. Biographical Note: Katrin Wollny-Goerke Kai Eskildsen, Landesamt fur den Nationalpark Schleswig-Holsteinisches Wattenmeer"