“…Wilhelmsson et al, 2010;Lindeboom et al, 2011;Bergström et al, 2014). The major impacts of OWPs are focused on the most obvious changes within the local environment such as the very high sound levels produced during the construction phase (Huddleston, 2010;Norro et al, 2013), the introduction of (new) hard substratum (Petersen & Malm, 2006;Langhamer, 2012;De Mesel et al, 2015), the rotating blades (Drewitt & Langston, 2006;Mendel et al, 2014) and the exclusion of fisheries, such as trawling (Lindeboom et al, 2011;Dannheim et al, 2014). We have gained knowledge on the short-term effects on benthos, fish, birds and marine mammals, including attraction to and avoidance of the OWP (for references: see Lindeboom et al, 2011), while the longer term effects of successional stages and consequent changes in e.g.…”