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Marine renewable energy: The ecological implications of altering the hydrodynamics of the marine environment

This paper, initiated by J Side, was one of the first collaborative outputs from the SFC SRDG in marine renewables, and was the fifth most downloaded paper in the journal in 2011. It demonstrates that the regional ecological implications of marine renewable energy extraction need to be considered against the greater and global ecological threat of climate change. In recommending the identification of species and biotopes susceptible to the removal of hydrokinetic energy as a suitable strategy for understanding altered flow conditions, the work has informed successful proposals for Supergen Marine 2, and EPSRC Marine Challenge 1 and 2 projects (TeraWatt and EcoWatt2050, respectively).