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Great skua (Stercorarius skua) movements at sea in relation to marine renewable energy developments

Overview of attention for article published in Marine Environmental Research, September 2014
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Title
Great skua (Stercorarius skua) movements at sea in relation to marine renewable energy developments
Published in
Marine Environmental Research, September 2014
DOI 10.1016/j.marenvres.2014.09.003
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H.M. Wade, E.A. Masden, A.C. Jackson, C.B. Thaxter, N.H.K. Burton, W. Bouten, R.W. Furness

Abstract

Marine renewable energy developments (MREDs) are an increasing feature of the marine environment. Owing to the relatively small number of existing developments and the early stage of their associated environmental monitoring programmes, the effects of MREDs on seabirds are not fully known. Our ability to fully predict potential effects is limited by a lack of knowledge regarding movements of seabirds at sea. We used GPS tracking to improve our understanding of the movements at sea of a protected seabird species breeding in Scotland, the great skua (Stercorarius skua), to better predict how this species may be affected by MREDs. We found that the overlap of great skuas with leased and proposed MREDs was low; particularly with offshore wind sites, which are predicted to present a greater risk to great skuas than wave or tidal-stream developments. Failed breeders overlapped with larger areas of MREDs than breeding birds but the overall overlap with core areas used remained low. Overlap with wave energy development sites was greater than for offshore wind and tidal-stream sites. Comparison of 2011 data with historical data indicates that distances travelled by great skuas have likely increased over recent decades. This suggests that basing marine spatial planning decisions on short-term tracking data could be less informative than longer-term data.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 4 3%
Israel 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Unknown 121 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 28 22%
Researcher 23 18%
Student > Master 15 12%
Student > Bachelor 9 7%
Other 9 7%
Other 11 9%
Unknown 32 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 51 40%
Environmental Science 26 20%
Engineering 3 2%
Unspecified 2 2%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 2%
Other 8 6%
Unknown 35 28%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 28. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 September 2020.
All research outputs
#1,377,993
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Outputs from Marine Environmental Research
#66
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#14,550
of 259,956 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Marine Environmental Research
#1
of 7 outputs
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