Restoration Scaling Approaches to Addressing Ecological Injury: The Habitat-Based Resource Equivalency Method.

ABSTRACT: Natural resource trustee agencies must determine how much, and what type of environmental restoration will compensate for injuries to natural resources that result from releases of hazardous substances or oil spills. To fulfill this need, trustees, and other natural resource damage assessment (NRDA) practitioners have relied on a variety of approaches, including habitat equivalency analysis (HEA) and resource equivalency analysis (REA). The purpose of this paper is to introduce the Habitat-Based Resource Equivalency Method (HaBREM), which integrates REA's reproducible injury metrics and population modeling with HEA's comprehensive habitat approach to restoration. HaBREM is intended to evaluate injury and restoration using organisms that use the habitat to represent ecological habitat funct

SUBMITTER: Baker M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7007898 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature