Skip to main content

Priorities for Coastal Ecosystem Science (1994) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:

6: SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Pages 77-80

The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.


From page 77...
... . Science priorities that are needed to understand the consequences of broadscale ecosystem modifications can be cast within the strategic framework being used by the Water Resources and Coastal and Marine Environments Research Subcommittee of the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources Research: Integrated Monitoring, Water Availability and Flow, Water Quality and Aquatic Ecosystem Functions, Ecological Restoration and Rehabilitation, and Predictive Systems Management.
Read the entire page →
From page 78...
... Federal science agencies can help implement ecosystem management by working with various bodies engaged in research and management, including Regional Marine Research Program boards; National Estuary Program components; and Great Lakes, Chesapeake Bay, and Gulf of Mexico programs. The goal should be to optimize the contribution of national programs to ecosystem management and to foster geographically targeted, strategic research that is intense enough to address ecosystem-level questions but avoids narrow prescriptions, to allow scientific creativity and program evaluation in response to new knowledge.
Read the entire page →
From page 79...
... SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 79 this strategy continue to involve input and review by the scientific, policy, and management communities. However, CENR should also seek to integrate and coordinate scientific activities in the coastal ocean and Great Lakes that are related to global climate change, resource use, biodiversity, natural disasters, public health, and national security with those contributing and maintaining ecosystem integrity and advancing fundamental science.
Read the entire page →

Key Terms

  • coastal zone
  • coastal ecosystems
  • marine environments
  • ecosystem modifications
  • assessment paradigms

  • geographically targeted
  • program evaluation
  • uniform regulatory
  • help implement
  • including regional

  • federal science
  • productive bilateral
  • nine coastal
  • water quality
  • coastal marine

  • basis requires
  • aquatic ecosystem
  • coastal science
  • integrated monitoring
  • considers freshwater

  • global ocean
  • ocean observing
  • aquatic ecosystems
  • research subcommittee
  • avoids narrow

  • regional marine
  • national strategies
  • strategic research
  • requires regional
  • changes modules


    • This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
    More information on Chapter Skim is available.