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3. Research Needs and Performance Measures
Pages 16-19

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... The White Paper makes the following medium-priority recommendations. Develop a simple carbon balance model for the ridge and slough landscape that can provide a basis for understanding peat accumulation and decomposition in ridges and sloughs; and collect the necessary data to quantify a carbon budget for the landscape.
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From page 17...
... This will be challenging and expensive, and should be co-Iocated with sites where other related research on the ridge and slough landscape is occurring. The White Paper's recommendation of "synoptic measurements of flow...conducted over short time scales and large spatial scales in order to quantify ranges of flow velocity and direction and to delineate major flow pathways" may provide useful information.
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... describes performance measures as quantitative measures of conditions in the natural and human systems that have been selected as targets for restoration. They are environmental response variables or system attributes that are expected to change as a consequence of alterations in water depth, hydroperiod, and/or water quality and are ecosystem characteristics that could be monitored to determine progress towards restoration goals and objectives (e.g., number of nesting wading birds)
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... Once there is sufficient scientific evidence to establish the role of flow and the flow rates required to maintain these landscape patterns, flow-related performance measures should be developed and added to the MAP. How these new performance measures are incorporated into the Restoration Plan will be a test of the plan's ability to incorporate new information in a framework of adaptive management.
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