A rapid marine biodiversity assessment of the coral reefs of the Calamianes Islands, Palawan Province, Philippines / [editors, Timothy B. Werner and Gerald R. Allen].
Habitat equivalency analysis : an overview / Damage Assessment and Restoration Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce.
Presents an overview of Habitat equivalency analysis (HEA) which is a methodology used to determine compensation for injuries to natural resources resulting from discharges of oil, releases of hazardous substances, or physical injury such as vessel ground...
Benthic habitats of the main Hawaiian Islands [electronic resource] / Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment, Biogeography Program.
Provides a benthic habitat classification manual, a benthic habitat map for the nearshore waters of the main Hawaiian Islands, and supplemental geospatial data. Twenty-seven distinct benthic habitat types within eleven zones were mapped directly into a ge...
Climate change and Pacific Islands : indicators and impacts / edited by Victoria W. Keener, John J. Marra, Melissa L. Finucane, Deanna Spooner, Margaret H. Smith.
"Climate Change and Pacific Islands: Indicators and Impacts is a report developed by the Pacific Islands Regional Climate Assessment (PIRCA) aimed at assessing the state of knowledge about climate change indicators, impacts, and adaptive capacity of the H...
Coral damage assessment and restoration tools for small vessel groundings [electronic resource] : extension of Seagrass Mini-312 Program to coral reefs : project report to NOAA Damage Assessment Center / by Paula E. Whitfield, Mark S. Fonseca, W. Judson Kenworthy.
Presents spatial modeling processes to compute the recovery of damaged sessile communities to pre-injury conditions. Demonstrates a probabilistic technique using SAS and a deterministic approach using ArcINFO.
Importance and satisfaction ratings by recreating visitors to the Florida Keys, Key West 2007-08 / Vernon R. Leeworthy and Rod Ehler.
"This report includes ratings given by visitors on the importance of, and satisfaction derived from 25 natural resource attributes, facilities and services. For presentation, a technique called 'importance-performance' or 'importance-satisfaction' is used...
Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council report on the 2007 ecosystem policy workshop / prepared by Impact Assessment, Inc.
"The workshop described in this report provided a forum through which participants contributed their knowledge and expertise to ecosystem-based fishery management in the Western Pacific. The meeting was not about formulating ecosystem policy per se. Rathe...
Presents request of U.S. National Ocean Service to U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to pre-test an Internet-based survey instrument to estimate public preferences and economic valuation of the Hawaiian coral reef ecosystem at the national level....
A rapid marine biodiversity assessment of the coral reefs of the Calamianes Islands, Palawan Province, Philippines / [editors, Timothy B. Werner and Gerald R. Allen].
"Climate Change and Pacific Islands: Indicators and Impacts is a report developed by the Pacific Islands Regional Climate Assessment (PIRCA) aimed at assessing the state of knowledge about climate change indicators, impacts, and adaptive capacity of the H...