Offshore Wind farm Egmond aan Zee Benthos densities

One of the monitoring items concerns the fate of the benthic faunal community after the construction of OWEZ. This research report focusses on the immediate effects of the presence of the wind farm on the actual benthic community and on the long-term effects on the benthic community within the zone of the windmills. In order to obtain insight in these questions a benthic sampling programme has been started in 2007 on possible short term (<1 2008.