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EIA Database

The distribution of seabirds and marine mammals in the Atlantic Frontier, north and west of Scotland.

2000
Pay-walled Book

Report for JNCC

Pollack C. M., Mavor, R., Weir, C. R., Reid, A., White, R. W., Tasker, M. L., Webb, A. and Reid, J. B.

The marine environment of the Atlantic Frontier region north and west of Scotland, the focus of recent oil exploration, hosts internationally important concentrations of seabirds. Twenty-three...
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Keywords: Atlantic frontier, Marine mammals, Scotland, Seabirds

The east coast of Scotland bottlenose dolphin population: Improving understanding of ecology outside the Moray Firth SAC.

2014
Open Access Report

UK Department of Energy and Climate Change's offshore energy Strategic Environmental Assessment programme

Quick, N., Arso, M., Cheney, B., Islas, V., Janik, V., Thompson, P.M and Hammond, P.S.

The bottlenose dolphins found in the Moray Firth Special Area of Conservation (Moray Firth SAC) are/ part of a Scottish east coast population of approximately 200...
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Keywords: Bottlenose dolphin, Ecology, Moray Firth, Scotland

Vulnerability of Scottish seabirds to offshore wind turbines.

2012
Open Access Report

The Scottish Government

Furness, B. and Wade, H.

MacArthur Green has been commissioned by Marine Scotland to review the sensitivity of seabirds in Scottish waters to offshore wind farms. The aim of this guidance...
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Keywords: Offshore wind farms, Scotland, Seabirds