Marine Pollution Bulletin 194 (2023) 115396 13 Romero-Freire, A., Santos-Echeandía, J., Neira, P., Cobelo-García, A., 2019. Less-studied technology-critical elements (Nb, Ta, Ga, In, Ge, Te) in the marine environment: review on their concentrations in water and organisms. Front. Mar. Sci. 6 https:// doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00532. Rousseau, C., Baraud, F., Leleyter, L., Gil, O., 2009. Cathodic protection by zinc sacrificial anodes: impact on marine sediment metallic contamination. J. Hazard. Mater. 167, 953–958. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2009.01.083. Rudnick, R.L., Gao, S., 2003. Composition of the Continental Crust, pp. 1–64. https://doi. org/10.1016/b0-08-043751-6/03016-4. Sarker, I., Moore, L.R., Tetu, S.G., 2021. Investigating zinc toxicity responses in marine Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus. Microbiology 167. https://doi.org/10.1099/ mic.0.001064. Stenton, C.A., Bolger, E.L., Michenot, M., Dodd, J.A., Wale, M.A., Briers, R.A., Hartl, M.G. J., Diele, K., 2022. Effects of pile driving sound playbacks and cadmium co-exposure on the early life stage development of the Norway lobster, Nephrops norvegicus. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 179, 113667 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113667. Voet, H.E.E., Van Colen, C., Vanaverbeke, J., 2022. Climate change effects on the ecophysiology and ecological functioning of an offshore wind farm artificial hard substrate community. Sci. Total Environ. 810, 152194 https://doi.org/10.1016/j. scitotenv.2021.152194. von der Au, M., Zimmermann, T., Kleeberg, U., von Tümpling, W., Profrock, D., 2022. Characteristic regional differences in trace element pattern of 2014 German North Sea surface Wadden sediments - a judge and assessment. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 184, 114208 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.114208. Wang, T., Zou, X., Li, B., Yao, Y., Li, J., Hui, H., Yu, W., Wang, C., 2018. Microplastics in a wind farm area: a case study at the Rudong Offshore Wind Farm, Yellow Sea, China. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 128, 466–474. https://doi.org/10.1016/j. marpolbul.2018.01.050. Wang, T., Ru, X., Deng, B., Zhang, C., Wang, X., Yang, B., Zhang, L., 2023. Evidence that offshore wind farms might affect marine sediment quality and microbial communities. Sci. Total Environ. 856, 158782 https://doi.org/10.1016/j. scitotenv.2022.158782. Wiederhold, J.G., 2015. Metal stable isotope signatures as tracers in environmental geochemistry. Environ. Sci. Technol. 49, 2606e2624. https://doi.org/10.1021/ es504683e. WindEurope, 2022. Wind energy in Europe: 2021 Statistics and the outlook for 2022–2026. In: https://proceedings.windeurope.org/biplatform/rails/active_s torage/blobs/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBbFFEIiwiZXhwIjpudWxs LCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19–f507a22c9854863e01fd427239f10167d031cc66/Wi ndeurope-Wind-energy-in-Europe-2021-statistics.pdf. Wright, A.J., Araujo-Wang, C., Wang, J.Y., Ross, P.S., Tougaard, J., Winkler, R., Marquez, M.C., Robertson, F.C., Williams, K.F., Reeves, R.R., 2020. How ‘blue’ is ‘green’ energy? Trends Ecol. Evol. 35, 235–244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j. tree.2019.11.002. Zeiler, M., Schwarzer, K., Bartholoma, A., Ricklefs, K., 2008. Seabed morphology and sediment dynamics. In: Kuratorium für Forschung im Küsteningenieurwesen (Ed.), Die Küste. Archive for Research and Technology on the North Sea and Baltic Coast, pp. 31–41, 74 ICCE. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11970/101589. Zimmermann, T., Mohamed, A.F., Reese, A., Wieser, M.E., Kleeberg, U., Profrock, D., Irrgeher, J., 2019a. Zinc isotopic variation of water and surface sediments from the German Elbe River. Sci. Total Environ. 135219 https://doi.org/10.1016/j. scitotenv.2019.135219. Zimmermann, T., Retzmann, A., Schober, M., Profrock, D., Prohaska, T., Irrgeher, J., 2019b. Matrix separation of Sr and Pb for isotopic ratio analysis of Ca-rich samples via an automated simultaneous separation procedure. Spectrochim. Acta B 151, 54–64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sab.2018.11.009. Zimmermann, T., von der Au, M., Reese, A., Klein, O., Hildebrandt, L., Profrock, D., 2020. Substituting HF by HBF4- an optimized digestion method for multi-elemental sediment analysis via ICP-MS/MS. Anal. Methods 12, 3778–3787. https://doi.org/ 10.1039/d0ay01049a. A. Ebeling et al.