Salt Marsh Integrity Assessment Program in USFWS region 5

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Salt Marsh Integrity Objectives Hierarchy Biological Diversity and Integrity (0.5) Environmental Health (0.5) Obligate Salt Marsh Breeding Birds (0.10) Nonbreeding Wetland Birds (0.10) Native Nekton Community (0.09) Native Veg Community (0.12) Trophic Structure (0.09) Tidal Regime and Hydrology (0.22) Maintain Marsh Area (0.22) Herbicide Applied During Mgt. (0.06) Birds/point Ave ABDU winter abundance Nekton Density (#/m2) (0.045) % cover native spp. Marsh spiders per m2 Flood Duration (0.11) Relative change marsh surface elevation Pints Nekton Species Richness (0.045) Salinity (0.11) Objective Measureable Attribute
Desire for “Rapid” Assessement Method Intensive • Obligate Marsh Bird Nesting Success • Vegetation Quadrats • Nekton Throw Traps& Ditch Nets • Groundwater Wells • GIS “Rapid” • Bird Point Counts/Callback • Vegetation Transects • Veg: Visual Community ID • Minnow Traps • Water Level Loggers • GIS
Page 1 and 2: Salt Marsh Integrity Assessment Pro
Page 3 and 4: Background cont. • US FWS has ser
Page 5 and 6: Structured Decision Making PrOACT P
Page 7: PrOACT • Objectives: Biological D
Page 11 and 12: Rapid Method “Final” List cont.
Page 13 and 14: Rapid Method “Final” List cont.
Page 15 and 16: Tidal Regime Influence Diagram Plan
Page 17 and 18: Multi-attribute Utility Theory util
Page 19 and 20: Consequence Table: Utility (u ij )
Page 21 and 22: Examples of Data Gathered: 2009 pil
Page 23 and 24: 2012 Data Analysis • Summary of n
Page 25: Questions?

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