Towards a Framework for Quantifying the Population-Level Consequences of Anthropogenic Pressures on the Environment: The Case of Seabirds and Windfarms

Abstract

• Quantifying impacts of development on populations is a key problem for ecologists.
• However, approaches to do this are often subject to significant uncertainty.
• We propose a framework to assess the impacts of wind farms on seabird populations.
• Probabilistic approaches proved less robust to uncertainty than others.
• Decisions about impacts must be made in the context of the population concerned.