Identifying Conservative Criteria for (environmental) Assessments of Vulnerability;: Seabirds and Offshore Wind Farms as a Case Study
Year: 2013
Type: dissertation
Abstract: The approach is based on four criterias; 1) elasticity of adult and juvenile survival on population growth rate, 2) redlist status and 3) local abundances and 4) flight properties. I also investigated whether the different criteria differed based on geographic maps of the vulnerability in coastal areas in Norway, and the method presented in this study was compared to another framework for vulnerability assessment, developed by Garthe and Hüppop (2004). The present study contributes to a refined framework of vulnerability assessment, which to a larger extent consider the population dynamics of seabirds, compared to other methods based on multiple factor indexes. The study also contributes to the discussion of the methodological aspects of vulnerability assessments of seabirds.
Source: BIBSYS Brage (BIBSYS (Norway))
Author: Marit Gressetvold
Language: English
Topic: Avian ecology and behavior
Subfield: Ecology
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W353776483