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Environmental Impact Analysis
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Environmental Impact Analysis

by James T. Maughan
December 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
400 pages
14h 23m
English
CRC Press
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services, such as primary production or plant density if the habitat is relatively
uniform, such as a mangrove swamp or Spartina spp. salt marsh.
Selecting a currency that is indicative of the health of a habitat is another
approach that can be useful for some habitats. For example, the density of
grass shrimp (Palaemonetes pugio), considered a key species by local experts,
is highly correlated with many and diverse services provided by marsh
habitats (NOAA 1997). Thus, grass shrimp population density can serve as
thecurrency in HEA because it is indicative of the services provided by the
environmental resource under consideration and can ultimately be used to
calculate ecological debit and credit ...
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ISBN: 9781466567832