Wetland and Stream Rapid Assessments: Development, Validation, and Application

Wetland and Stream Rapid Assessments: Development, Validation, and Application describes the scientific and environmental policy background for rapid wetland and stream assessments, how such assessment methods are developed and statistically verified, and how they can be used in environmental decision-making-including wetland and stream permitting. In addition, it provides several case studies of method development and use in various parts of the world. Readers will find guidance on developing and testing such methods, along with examples of how these methods have been used in various programs across North America. Rapid wetland and stream functional assessments are becoming frequently used methods in federal, state and local environmental permitting programs in North America. Many governments are interested in developing new methods or improving existing methods for their own jurisdictions. This book provides an ideal guide to these initiatives. Offers guidance for the use and evaluation of rapid assessments to developers and users of these methods, as well as students of wetland and stream qualityContains contributions from sources who are successful in academia, industry and government, bringing credibility and relevance to the contentIncludes a statistically-based approach to testing the validity of the rapid method, which is very important to the usefulness and defensibility of assessment methods INDICE: 1.0 Introduction 2.1 Introduction to Landscape-Level Approaches for Assessing Wetland Functions and Condition 2.2 l Case Studies -- Landscape-Level Approaches2.2.1 A Landscape-Level Wetland Functional Assessment Tool: Building a Framework for Watershed-Based Assessments in the United States- Tiner. 2.2.2 Georgia Coastal Wetlands Landscape-Level Assessment 2.2.3 Assessing Streamflow Maintenance Functions in Wetlands of the Blackfoot River Subbasin in Montana, USA 2.2.4 Landscape-level Wetland Functional Assessment for the St. Joseph River Watershed, Southwest Michigan, USA 2.2.5 An Automated Procedure for Extending The NWI Classification System For Wetland Functional Assessment In Minnesota, USA2.2.6 Developing a Functional Classification for Wetlands of Colorado's Southern Rockies 2.2.7 Wetland Mapping Provides Opportunity To Compare Landscape-Level To Site-Level Wetland Assessments In Delaware, USA2.2.8 Virginia Wetland Assessment Tool (WETCAT): A model for Management2.2.9 The Use of Landscape-level Assessment for Producing a Decision-support Tool for Puget Sound Watersheds2.2.10 Development and Preliminary Tests of Remotely-Based Imagery, Digital Databases and GIS Methods as Tools to Identify Wetlands and Selected Functions and Values in Ontario, Canada2.2.11 NOVAWET  - Basic Information for Assessing Wetland Functions in Nova Scotia, Canada - Ralph Tiner  2.2.12 Maintaining the Portfolio of Wetland Functions on the Landscape: A Rapid Evaluation Tool for Estimating Wetland Functions and Values in Alberta, Canada -Irena F. Creed, David A. Aldred, Jacqueline N. Serran, Francesco Accatino2.2.13 Using Landscape-Level Wetland Assessment to Aid in Local Management Of Wetlands For Lake County, Illinois3.1 Process for Adapting and Developing a RAM 3.2 Developing Guidance for Delimiting the Assessment Areas 3.3 Selecting Indicators, Creating and Testing the Data Forms  3.4 Creating Models for Rolling Up Indicator Data Into Scores 3.5 Collecting Calibration Data3.6 Converting Scores to Ratings 3.7 Analyzing a RAM's Repeatability and Sensitivity3.8 Analyzing a RAM's Accuracy3.9 General Issues in Statistical Testing for Streams and Wetlands3.10 Applications of Field-Based Methods 4.1 Stream Identification and Flow Duration methods4.2 Pacific Northwest Stream Method 4.3 NC Stream identification4.4 Qualitative Indicators for Perennial Stream Determination in Virginia4.5 Stream Condition Methods4.5 North Carolina Stream Assessment Method4.6 The West Virginia Stream and Wetland Valuation Metric (WVSWVM) Crediting Procedures and Assessments in Developing a Stream and Wetland Mitigation Banking Site 4.7 Virginia Unified Stream Method4.8 Wetland assessment methods4.9 North Carolina WESP (Wetland Ecosystems Services Protocol): Oregon, Southeast Alaska, Alberta, Atlantic Canada4.10 Ohio -  Developing and Implementing a Single State-Wide Wetland Rapid Assessment Method to Support Reliable Regulatory Categorization and Wetland Biological Criteria Development4.11 Michigan - Michigan Rapid Assessment Method for Wetlands (MiRAM) 4.12 New England Functional Assessment Method (NEWFA) 4.13 Washington State Rapid Assessment Methods4.14 Florida: Florida Uniform Mitigation Assessment Method4.15 California - California Rapid Assessment Method for Wetlands and Riparian Areas (CRAM) 4.16 New Mexico - Rapid Assessment of Arid-land Lowland Riverine  Riparian/Wetland Ecosystems: A New Mexico Case Study 4.17 Ontario Wetland Evaluation System 4.18 Implementing National-Scale and Regional-Scale Wetland Assessments 4.19 The National Wetland Condition Assessment and USA RAM 4.20 Creating a Unified Mid-Atlantic Rapid Condition Assessment Protocol for Wetlands 4.21 Southeastern United States Assessment done as part of 2011 National Wetland Condition Assessment Other methods:4.22 Nearshore Assessment Tool for SE Alaska (NATAK-SE)  Floristic Quality Index and Forested Floristic Quality Index: Assessment Tools for Restoration Projects and Monitoring Sites in Coastal Louisiana4.23 Ecological Assessment and Rehabilitation Prioritization for Improving Springs Ecosystem Stewardship, 5.1 Introduction and Overview5.2 Europe5.3 Wetland Rapid Assessment in France. 5.4 Oceania5.5 New Zealand - Monitoring Wetland Condition in New Zealand. 5.6 Asia5.7 Rapid assessment of the Himalayan Rivers  5.8 Central and South America 5.9  Rapid Assessment Methods Developed for the Mangrove Forests of the Great Morass, St. Thomas, Eastern Jamaica5.10 Rehabilitation of Wetlands in Tempisque River Lower Basin: Mata Redonda National Wildlife Refuge as a case study:  5.11 Africa5.12 WET-Health - A Method for Rapidly Assessing Wetland Ecological Condition in South AfricaSECTION SIX:  Conclusions

• ISBN: 978-0-12-805091-0
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 400
• Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2018
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés