Feasibility of extending SeabORD to the entire breeding season: study

SeabORD is a method that can assess displacement and barrier effects from offshore renewables on seabirds, but is currently limited to four species during the chick-rearing season. This review examined ways to improve the SeabORD model including extending to the entire breeding season.

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Appendix D: Technical description of the incorporation of the revised relationships into SeabORD

If we were to rewrite Equation 5 as

Mathematical Equation

(Equation 6)

and to regard the population average effect on survival of Mathematical Equation as contributing to the mean survival of a particular scenario, then we can replace Mathematical Equation in Equation 6 with log (s0j/(1 - s0j)) and replace the index k of pik by the scenario index j we obtain the familiar-looking

Mathematical Equation

(Equation 6)

After matching the scaling in any standardisations between mij and Xi, this allows SeabORD to operate as previously.

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