Coastal National Wildlife Refuges (NWRs) provide a myriad of beneficial services, including buffering storm surge, improving water quality, supporting commercial fisheries, and providing habitat for imperiled wildlife and plants. Yet in the last century, coastal ecosystems in the eastern U.S. have been severely altered by human development activities as well as sea-level rise and more frequent extreme events related to climate change. These influences threaten the goods and services provided by NWRs and pose decision-making challenges for refuge managers. The purpose of this project was to explore how structured decision-making – a formal, systematic method for analyzing decisions – could help NWR staff make informed...
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OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: 2013,
2013,
CASC,
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Data Visualization & Tools,
Northeast,
Northeast CASC,
ProductWorkingFolder,
Projects by Region,
ReportWorkingFolder,
Science Tools for Managers,
Sea-Level Rise and Coasts,
Sea-Level Rise and Coasts,
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Southeast CASC,
United States,
Water, Coasts and Ice,
Water, Coasts and Ice,
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