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https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-801-2022
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Artificial hard-substrate colonisation in the offshore Hywind Scotland Pilot Park
Environmental department, MMT Sweden AB, Gothenburg, 426 71, Sweden
Malin Tivefälth
Environmental department, MMT Sweden AB, Gothenburg, 426 71, Sweden
Iris Duranović
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Environmental department, MMT Sweden AB, Gothenburg, 426 71, Sweden
Svante Martinsson
Environmental department, MMT Sweden AB, Gothenburg, 426 71, Sweden
Ane Kjølhamar
Equinor ASA, Trondheim, 7053, Norway
Kari Mette Murvoll
Equinor ASA, Trondheim, 7053, Norway
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Distinct zonations with their own fauna and flora were observed. Algae and blue mussels dominated the structures from the surface down to 20 m, with tube-building fan worms and plumose anemones as the main colonisers found below. The park is in its "intermediate stage" and moving towards the "climax stage", with anemones covering most of the structures. The study was conducted to investigate if a floating wind park has the same fauna and zonations observed on traditional non-floating wind parks.
Distinct zonations with their own fauna and flora were observed. Algae and blue mussels...
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