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The&nbsp;Chesapeake Bay has been undergoing restoration since the 1980s. States within the watershed have adopted a&nbsp;Watershed&nbsp;Agreement and Total Maximum Daily Load&nbsp;(TMDL)&nbsp;to restore the Bay. The most recent&nbsp;Watershed&nbsp;Agreement recommends Best Manage...

The Tampa Bay region faces projected stress from climate change, contaminants, nutrients, and of human development on a natural ecosystem that is valued (economically, aesthetically and culturally) in its present state. With fast-paced population increases, conversion and develop...

Health Impact Assessment (HIA) provides a methodology for incorporating considerations of public health into planning and decision-making processes. HIA promotes interdisciplinary action, stakeholder participation, and timeliness and takes into account equity, sustainability, and...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently established the Ecosystem Services Research Program to help formulate methods and models for conducting comprehensive risk assessments that quantify how multiple ecosystem services interact and respond in concert to environmental ...

The article &ldquo;Utilizing ecosystem service classifications in multi-criteria decision analysis &ndash; Experiences of peat extraction case in Finland&rdquo; (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2019.101049) analyzes how classification knowledge is used to construct multi-criteri...

Ecosystems and the services they provide have been linked in the literature to multiple human health outcomes. Demonstrated and proposed mechanisms focus on hazard buffering and health-promotional aspects of ecosystems. Services such as air and water filtration, heat mitigation...

Coral reefs provide numerous ecosystem goods and services, but are threatened by multiple environmental and anthropogenic stressors. To identify management scenarios that will reverse or mitigate ecosystem degradation, managers can benefit from tools that can quantify projected c...

Burrowing shrimps are regarded as ecosystem engineering species in many coastal ecosystems worldwide, including numerous estuaries of the west coast of North America (Baja California to British Columbia). In estuaries of the U.S. Pacific Northwest, two species of large burrowing...

This system is named NESCS Plus because it augments the original NESCS 4-component framework (USEPA, 2015) with a 5th component, the Beneficiary list from the Final Ecosystem Goods and Services Classification System (FEGS-CS; Landers and Nahlik, 2013). A key feature of this class...

This presentation provides an overview of water quality and ecosystem services research that is conducted, in part, in Tillamook Bay, Oregon, and its watersheds by scientists at WED. The research topics address issues of national relevance, as identified by EPA&rsquo;s national ...

This presentation gives a basic overview of ecosystem services in order to provide all members of the East Mount Zion RESES technical working group a common framework to use when discussing ecosystem services. We explain the origins of the ecosystem services concept generally and...

This panel will discuss the research being conducted, and the models being used in three current coastal EPA studies being conducted on ecosystem services in Tampa Bay, the Chesapeake Bay and the Coastal Carolinas. These studies are intended to provide a broader and more compreh...

Ecosystem services have become a key issue of this century in resource management, conservation planning, human well-being, and environmental decision analysis. Mapping and quantifying ecosystem services have become strategic national interests for integrating ecology with econom...

Humans are dependent upon the services provided by nature, and unless we effectively account for the range of values from ecosystems in our efforts to protect the environment, we cannot sustain human well-being. In light of this dependence, the US Environmental Protections Agency...

A focus for resource management, conservation planning, and environmental decision analysis has been mapping and quantifying biodiversity and ecosystem services. The challange has been to integrate ecology with economics to better understand the effects of human policies and acti...

USEPA Office of Research Development (ORD) new strategic focus is the measurement of benefits and services of ecosystem. The primary objective of the Ecosystem Services Research Program (ESRP) is to identify, measure, monitor, model and map ecosystem services and to enable their ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency’s (USEPA) Ecosystem Services Research Program (ESRP) is focused on transdisciplinary research to develop tools to enable decision-makers at all levels of governance to proactively conserve ecosystems services. A major product from the ESRP ...

The ecosystem services paradigm is a framework conceived to engage support among people, especially policy- and decision-makers, for the recognition that human welfare, prosperity, security, and well-being are intrinsically linked to the health of the environment. Simply stated, ...

Characterization of ecosystem services can be a valuable element of Ecosystem Based Management in identifying meaningful measures of ecosystem change, understanding the natural resource gains or losses associated with changing ecosystem conditions, and communicating those benefit...

Ecosystem services, i.e., "services provided to humans from natural systems," have become a key issue of this century in resource management, conservation planning, human well-being, and environmental decision analysis. Mapping and quantifying ecosystem services have become stra...

The task of estimating ecosystem service production and delivery deserves special attention. When approached as a function of land cover at any given time, context driven facets of ecosystem service production, delivery, and resulting effects on human well-being can be overlooke...

ORD-CPHEA-PESD research ecologist Bob McKane will present and co-facilitate a roundtable discussion for EPA-ORD&rsquo;s &ldquo;A Community on Ecosystem Services (ACES) Roundtable on 12/8/2021. Bob will present on &ldquo;The Intersection of Climate Change &amp; Ecosystem Services:...

Ecosystem services (ESS) represent an ecosystems capacity for satisfying essential human needs, directly or indirectly, above that required to maintain ecosystem integrity (structure, function and processes). The spatial characterization and mapping of ESS is an essential first s...

Human pressures on the natural resources of the United States have resulted in many unintended changes in our ecosystems, e.g., loss of biodiversity, habitat degradation, increases in the number of endangered species, and increases in contamination and water pollution. Environm...

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) provided a framework that acknowledges biodiversity as one key factor for ensuring the continuous supply of ecosystem services, facilitating ecosystem stability and consequently as a critical basis for sustainable development. The close...