2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
5/24/2018 | 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM | DIFFERENT USES FOR DIFFERENT WATERS: A POLICY FOR TRADEOFFS IN ECOSYSTEM SERVICES ALONG HUMAN DISTURBANCE GRADIENTS | 321
DIFFERENT USES FOR DIFFERENT WATERS: A POLICY FOR TRADEOFFS IN ECOSYSTEM SERVICES ALONG HUMAN DISTURBANCE GRADIENTS
Tradeoffs exist in ecosystem services along human disturbance gradients. One of the simplest of these tradeoffs is between biological condition and fisheries production along gradients of nutrient pollution. Sensitive native species are lost as nutrient pollution increases, but fisheries production increases along that same nutrient pollution gradient. Tradeoffs exist among many ecosystem services along many pollution gradients. These issues are magnified when we expand our scope of assessing ecosystem services from water to land, and from the US to the world, where values of different services change. Water policies deal with these tradeoffs more poorly than land policies, which would never expect that all lands are protected as natural as did the Clean Water Act goal of physical, chemical and biological integrity. Our EPA-STAR funded work assesses the value of water quality, game fish, and biological condition as ecosystem services and how that varies among water body types (lakes, streams, rivers, Great Lakes) in Michigan. We are working on a plan to protect different waters for different uses and thereby optimize value of ecosystem services across the state. This work demands new research questions in freshwater ecosystem conservation and sustainability.
- Water Quality
- Fish
- Biodiversity
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R. Jan Stevenson
(), Michigan State University, rjstev@msu.edu;
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Joe Herriges
(), Michigan State University, jah@msu.edu;
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Frank Lupi
(), Michigan State University, lupi@msu.edu;
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