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Songbird migration offshore
Every year, millions of songbirds fly over the North Sea as they migrate between their wintering and breeding grounds. However, this behaviour is still poorly understood with regard to the massive…
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Species and site protection in planning
The main focus of the project is to standardise and optimise the processes for the legal review of species and site protection at higher planning levels. This concentrates in particular on the higher…
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Species conservation and small wind turbines
This project records baseline data on a larger scale for the first time in order to evaluate the effects of small wind turbines on birds and bats. The study also analyses the relevant determining…
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SuN-diverse – More biodiversity in solar farms
The expansion of solar energy, also on open land, will increase strongly in Germany in the next few years. The aim of the project is to improve the consideration of nature conservation issues in the…
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Sustainable wind energy production in forests
Consideration of biodiversity and ecosystem services as a basis for sustainable wind energy production in forests.
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Telemetric monitoring of eagle owls
With an estimated number of 400 breeding pairs, the eagle owl is almost present throughout Schleswig-Holstein. Aim of this telemetry study is to provide a more accurate estimate of the risk for eagle…
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TRACKBIRD - Bird migration over the North Sea and Baltic Sea and offshore wind energy
The aim of the project is to study the potential effects of offshore wind turbines on migratory birds and passage migrants.
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Tree species in German forests
This project aims to compare different methods for assessing the naturalness of the tree species composition of woodlands in Germany and presents suggestions for a more transparent and spatially and…
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Underwater noise effects from offshore wind energy (UWE)
With the use of the North and Baltic Seas as sites for wind turbines, marine mammals are being exposed to increasing underwater noise. The planned methods and measuring procedures enable an…
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Wind energy ramp up and species protection laws
In view of the climate crisis, the German Federal government has set itself the goal of increasing the share of renewable energies in gross electricity consumption to at least 80 % by 2030 and to 100…
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