Articles | Volume 7, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-801-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-7-801-2022
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04 Apr 2022
Research article |  | 04 Apr 2022

Artificial hard-substrate colonisation in the offshore Hywind Scotland Pilot Park

Rikard Karlsson, Malin Tivefälth, Iris Duranović, Svante Martinsson, Ane Kjølhamar, and Kari Mette Murvoll

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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.
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