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3. Additional Components of Monitoring
Pages 43-46

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... In 1999, a set of ten report card performance measures (Table 3-~) were selected from the much larger set of Monitoring and Assessment Plan performance measures (Ogden and McLean, 1999~.
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... TABLE 3-1 Report Card Performance Measures Performance Measure Measurement Grade Potential non- Restoration Plan related impacts Release from sediment storage, shoreline development, precipitation patterns, altered lawn chemical application Disease, predators, harvesting, pollutants, sea-level rise Release from sediment storage, shoreline development, precipitation patterns, altered lawn chemical application Precipitation pattems, development, altered industry types, population increase Lake Okeechobee Phosphorus Levels St. Lucie Oyster Beds Phosphorus concentrations in Red open water areal extent and health of beds Red St.
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... System-wide measures of this sort, such as alligator populations and numbers of foraging and nesting wading birds, should be viewed primarily as report card measures, and as secondary to system-wide performance measures or indicators more closely linked to ecosystem function in the context of adaptive assessment. REGULATORY COMPLIANCE MONITORING Several federal environmental laws apply to the Everglades, for example, the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act.
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... Performance measures for these species are of little use in adaptive assessment, and are risky as status-report variables. Monitoring of these species is best viewed as strictly compliance monitoring.
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