Biology - Terrestrial, Freshwater, and Marine Ecosystems Program
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About ProgramOur Research Goals The Terrestrial, Freshwater, and Marine Ecosystems Program has five overarching goals that provide context for the science activities it supports: 1. To quantify and understand factors influencing patterns of temporal and spatial variability in key ecosystem components:
2. To model factors controlling ecosystem patterns at various scales and develop decision support systems which integrate this information with management options:
3. To develop indexes of ecosystem sensitivity to change and vulnerability to potential stressors, and tools to predict ecosystem responses to environmental change:
4. To devise a restoration and adaptive management framework for impaired ecosystems:
5. To identify research areas representative of U.S. ecosystems and initiate a research reference site network:
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