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5. Conclusions and Recommendations
Pages 51-54

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From page 51...
... · Opportunities for flexibility in design should be identified and operational features of the Restoration plan components should be assessed to help prioritize monitoring and assessment activities. Conclusion: Restoration goals, objectives, and targets for the Everglades are inadequately defined and are not reconciled with the large-scare forces of change in south Florida.
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From page 52...
... The National Institute of Standards and Technology or other similar organization should be consulted to provide guidance as a QA/QC plan is developed. Conclusion: Including combinations of ecological performance measures and environmental variables hypothesized to impact those measures is critical for the MAP given the adaptive management approach being implemented.
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From page 53...
... New aggregated performance measures will be especially critical. Conclusion: Region-wide monitoring of ecosystem drivers as discussed in Chapter 2 is essential to reducing the uncertainties associated with the Restoration Plan but these drivers appear to have received comparatively little attention by the Monitoring and Assessment Plan.
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From page 54...
... The strategy of integrating, but differentiating, performance measures used for adaptive management, compliance monitoring, and the report card is a worthy one. The MAP should determine on a continuing basis the most effective ways of communicating and explaining scientific information to the decision makers and various stakeholders related to the restoration of the Everglades using adaptive management.
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