Ecosystem Alternative Development Process Sample Clauses

Ecosystem Alternative Development Process. S e c t i o n 3 The Lake Erie LaMP Ecosystem Objectives Subcommittee (EOSC) was charged with the task of developing ecosystem objectives for Lake Erie. The EOSC is a binational group of about 15 individuals with expertise in limnology, water quality, and fisheries and wildlife management. Three members of the Lake Erie Binational Public Forum have worked closely with the committee throughout the exercise. Again, the first step in the process was to identify ecosystem alternatives. The committee began the exercise by holding four public workshops around the basin to gain ideas on the desired state of the Lake Erie ecosystem. This was followed by an expert workshop where published information and expert opinion was solicited concerning key relationships in the ecosystem. A conceptual model of three ecosystem alternatives was developed for initial discussion. Several other attempts at developing a model that could be used for Lake Erie were made. As a result, a fuzzy cognitive map (FCM) approach was adopted to model ecosystem alternatives for Lake Erie. A FCM model is one way to analyze a complex system by representing the most important components of that system as nodes of a network. Individual nodes are connected to many other nodes. A change at one node will affect all connected nodes, and then all the nodes connected to those nodes, generating a ripple effect. Taking an FCM approach required more data and, therefore, a second expert workshop was held. The results of the second workshop led to the development of an FCM model for the lake dubbed the Lake Erie Systems Model. The model will be used as a tool to help understand how various components of the ecosystem interact, but it is not a panacea to predict future conditions. Three major categories of actions and reactions are used to explain the output of the Lake Erie Systems Model: 1) management levers; 2) ecosystem health response; and 3) beneficial use to humans. Management levers are a variety of human actions that affect the ecosystem. Ecosystem health response describes the condition of individual biotic and habitat components and the reaction to the management levers. Beneficial use refers to those human uses defined in the GLWQA that are affected by the management levers. By randomly and simultaneously moving all management levers in different directions and monitoring responses of all non-lever variables, a large set of different potential outcomes in the ecosystem can be generated. These outco...
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