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2020 (English)In: Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, E-ISSN 2077-1312, Vol. 8, no 8, article id 495Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Biofouling is a major problem shared among all maritime sectors employing submerged structures where it leads to substantially increased costs and lowered operational lifespans if poorly addressed. Insight into the ongoing processes at the relevant marine locations is key to effective management of biofouling. Of specific concern for the marine renewable energy (MRE) sector is the fact that information on biofouling composition and magnitude across geographies is dispersed throughout published papers and consulting reports. To enable rapid access to relevant key biofouling events the present work describes a European biofouling database to support the MRE sector and other maritime industries. The database compiles in one document qualitative and quantitative data for challenging biofouling groups, including non-native species associated with MRE and related marine equipment, in different European Ecoregions. It provides information on the occurrence of fouling species and data on key biofouling parameters, such as biofouling thickness and weight. The database aims to aid the MRE sector and offshore industries in understanding which biofouling communities their devices are more susceptible to at a given site, to facilitate informed decisions. In addition, the biofouling mapping is useful for the development of biosecurity risk management plans as well as academic research. © 2020 by the authors.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
MDPI AG, 2020
Keywords
Biofouling, Colonization, Macrofouling, Mapping, Marine renewable energy, Maritime, Non-native species
National Category
Natural Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-46801 (URN)10.3390/JMSE8070495 (DOI)2-s2.0-85089279949 (Scopus ID)
Note
Funding details: Steadman Philippon Research Institute, SPRI; Funding details: Centre for Industrial Technological Development, CDTI; Funding details: Energimyndigheten; Funding details: IK4-Azterlan, OCEANERA/0005/2014; Funding details: Eusko Jaurlaritza; Funding details: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, FCT; Funding text 1: This research was funded by FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology), SWEA (Swedish Energy Agency), SPRI (Basque Business Development Agency), EVE (Energy Agency of the Basque Government) and CDTI (Spanish Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology) throughOCEANERA-NET(Ocean Energy European Research Network) under the reference OCEANERA/0005/2014. The authors thank the OCEANIC partners CorPower Ocean (H?gersten, Sweden), Gaiker (Zamudio, Spain), IK4-Azterlan (Durango, Spain), Repol (Almazora, Spain), RISE (Bor?s, Sweden), WavEC (Lisboa, Portugal), Skandinavisk Ytf?r?dling (Esl?v, Sweden) and Recubrimientos Mikra (Idiazabal, Spain)for the support during the project.
2020-08-242020-08-242023-05-16Bibliographically approved