Workshop Report on Characterizing Ecological Risk at the Watershed Scale
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- Victor B. Serveiss
- by phone at: 703-347-8553
- by email at: serveiss.victor@epa.gov
- by email at: serveiss.victor@epa.gov
One of the principal challenges in applying ecological risk assessment to watershed management and decision making is the need for a framework for characterizing risks that involve numerous stressors, interconnected pathways, and multiple endpoints. To develop the needed guidance in this area a workshop was held that gathered 35 participants with extensive experience in relevant disciplines such as watershed ecological risk assessment, ecological risk assessment, watershed management, or regional-scale assessment. To focus workshop discussions, several charge questions addressing the issues of greatest concern for characterizing risk at the watershed scale were developed prior to the workshop. This report provides the proceedings from the workshop and includes an introduction, a synthesis of discussion and recommendations, and summaries of presentations and breakout sessions.
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- Workshop Report on Characterizing Ecological Risk at the Watershed Scale (PDF) (NA pp, 1 MB, about PDF)
Citation
Serveiss, V., J. P. Cox, J. Moses, AND B. L. Yeager. Workshop Report on Characterizing Ecological Risk at the Watershed Scale. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Center for Environmental Assessment, Washington Office, Washington, DC, 2000.