{"id":438,"date":"2019-02-22T12:14:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T17:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/?p=438"},"modified":"2019-04-04T10:49:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T14:49:21","slug":"survey-design-for-assessing-impacts-of-development-and-habitat-alteration-on-distribution-and-abundance-of-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/research\/survey-design-for-assessing-impacts-of-development-and-habitat-alteration-on-distribution-and-abundance-of-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessing Impacts of Offshore Development and Habitat Alteration on Distribution and Abundance of Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lead\/Team: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/meet\/scott-mcwilliams\/\">S. McWilliams<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/meet\/peter-paton\/\">P. Paton<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Applied quantitative modeling techniques (including density surface modeling, resource selection functions, boosted hierarchical models) to directly assess impacts of offshore renewable energy (ORE) on bird distribution and abundance; strategies to use boat-based and aerial surveys to assess the distribution of avian populations pre- and construction of ORE; assessing movements of birds with various tracking technologies to develop spatially-explicit models of avian utilization of offshore habitats; formal \u2018damage assessment\u2019 to determine financial compensation associated offshore development on bird populations; application of bird ecophysiology to conservation. 2008 \u2013 Present. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assess impacts of such disturbances or alterations on bird distribution and abundance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[69,15],"tags":[55,58],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecological-studies","category-research","tag-peter-paton","tag-scott-mcwilliams"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1897,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/1897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/offshore-renewable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}