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Titre :	Stakeholder Perceptions of Coastal Habitat Ecosystem Services (2015)
Auteurs :	Lauren Hutchison, Auteur ; Paul Montagna, Auteur ; Dave Yoskowitz, Auteur ; Damion Scholz, Auteur ; Jace Tunnell, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Estuaries and Coasts (38(Suppl. 1) JAN 2015)
Article en page(s) :	S67-S80
Langues:	Anglais
Résumé :	The goal of the current study was to document local stakeholder perceptions of ecosystem services provided by coastal habitats and to incorporate values of ecosystem services into an ecosystem-based management plan. A second goal was to identify and quantify ecosystem service supply at the local level, which is a knowledge gap identified by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Ecosystem services were quantified as stakeholder perceptions of values. To identify local stakeholder perceptions of coastal habitat ecosystem services, a workshop was conducted at which stakeholders were asked to complete surveys. Data from the surveys were used to create a spatial representation of the number of ecosystem services provided by habitats in the form of a heat map. Results of the study were incorporated into an ecosystem-based management plan to enable stakeholders and managers to make better-informed decisions regarding priority areas for conservation, preservation, and restoration. The methods used in this study can be expanded to develop future ecosystem-based management plans.

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