Colour as a behavioural guide for fish near hydrokinetic turbines
Hydropower is a traditional and widespread form of renewable energy and vertical axis turbines are an emerging technology suitable for low to medium velocity water bodies such as rivers. Such devices can provide renewable power to remote communities but may also contribute to fragmenting already poo...
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| author | Guglielmo Sonnino Sorisio Stephanie Müller Catherine A.M.E. Wilson Pablo Ouro Jo Cable |
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| description | Hydropower is a traditional and widespread form of renewable energy and vertical axis turbines are an emerging technology suitable for low to medium velocity water bodies such as rivers. Such devices can provide renewable power to remote communities but may also contribute to fragmenting already poorly connected riverine habitats and the impact could be particularly pronounced for migratory diadromous aquatic species such as salmonids by limiting their ability to pass the turbines. Optimising the design of such turbines is therefore essential to mitigate their impact on aquatic fauna. One easily altered property that does not impact turbine performance is blade colour. Here, juvenile rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) free swimming within a flume were monitored in the presence of a vertical axis turbine that was either stationary or rotating, and coloured white or orange. The orange colour of the turbine affected behaviour by increasing turbine avoidance and decreasing the number of potentially harmful interactions with the turbine when it was rotating, whilst not affecting passage or mobility of the trout compared to the white turbine. Visibility is therefore a potentially useful tool in mitigating the environmental impact of hydrokinetic turbines. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4d2335fbec7f450f828118d1ba5228162023-12-21T07:33:26ZengElsevierHeliyon2405-84402023-12-01912e22376Colour as a behavioural guide for fish near hydrokinetic turbinesGuglielmo Sonnino Sorisio0Stephanie Müller1Catherine A.M.E. Wilson2Pablo Ouro3Jo Cable4School of Engineering, Cardiff University, CF24 3AA, UK; Corresponding author.School of Engineering, Cardiff University, CF24 3AA, UKSchool of Engineering, Cardiff University, CF24 3AA, UKSchool of Engineering, Cardiff University, CF24 3AA, UK; School of Engineering, University of Manchester, M13 9PL, UKSchool of Biosciences, Cardiff University, CF10 3AX, UKHydropower is a traditional and widespread form of renewable energy and vertical axis turbines are an emerging technology suitable for low to medium velocity water bodies such as rivers. Such devices can provide renewable power to remote communities but may also contribute to fragmenting already poorly connected riverine habitats and the impact could be particularly pronounced for migratory diadromous aquatic species such as salmonids by limiting their ability to pass the turbines. Optimising the design of such turbines is therefore essential to mitigate their impact on aquatic fauna. One easily altered property that does not impact turbine performance is blade colour. Here, juvenile rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) free swimming within a flume were monitored in the presence of a vertical axis turbine that was either stationary or rotating, and coloured white or orange. The orange colour of the turbine affected behaviour by increasing turbine avoidance and decreasing the number of potentially harmful interactions with the turbine when it was rotating, whilst not affecting passage or mobility of the trout compared to the white turbine. Visibility is therefore a potentially useful tool in mitigating the environmental impact of hydrokinetic turbines.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844023095841TurbineFishPassageColourTroutSalmonid |
| spellingShingle | Guglielmo Sonnino Sorisio Stephanie Müller Catherine A.M.E. Wilson Pablo Ouro Jo Cable Colour as a behavioural guide for fish near hydrokinetic turbines Heliyon Turbine Fish Passage Colour Trout Salmonid |
| title | Colour as a behavioural guide for fish near hydrokinetic turbines |
| title_full | Colour as a behavioural guide for fish near hydrokinetic turbines |
| title_fullStr | Colour as a behavioural guide for fish near hydrokinetic turbines |
| title_full_unstemmed | Colour as a behavioural guide for fish near hydrokinetic turbines |
| title_short | Colour as a behavioural guide for fish near hydrokinetic turbines |
| title_sort | colour as a behavioural guide for fish near hydrokinetic turbines |
| topic | Turbine Fish Passage Colour Trout Salmonid |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844023095841 |
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