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Ecosystem Profile ECOSYSTEM PROFILE Consider strengths and vulnerabilities

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Page 1: Ecosystem Profile Consider strengths and vulnerabilities of natural resources

Ecosystem Profile ECOSYSTEMPROFILE

Consider strengths and vulnerabilities of natural resources

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Video 2 – Greenseams

Go to the Roadmap website.

Adjust your computer volume, if necessary.

Click the ‘Greenseams’ title

Watch this video and think about how this story might relate to your community.

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• Storm buffering

• Flood protection

• Stormwater management

• Erosion control

• Climate regulation

Consider the protective functions of key natural resources

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• Clean air and water

• Healthy fisheries and wildlife habitat

• Recreation and tourism opportunities

• Sense of place

Consider additional benefits of key natural resources

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• Development patterns

• Unsustainable uses

• Pollution

• Hazardous materials

Consider potential stressors to key natural resources

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Ecosystem StressorsReply in chat!

What are some specific examples of stressors affecting key natural resources in your area?

ECOSYSTEMPROFILE

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• Development of beachfront

property, adding to vulnerability

and impacting dune protections

• Proliferation of individual

docks, causing wetland impacts

and losses

Ecosystem Stressors

ECOSYSTEMPROFILE

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• Continued development in floodplain

• Site specific planning

• Altering the natural landscape

Consider current policies affects on the future vulnerability of natural resources

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Tools and resources for assessing ecosystem vulnerability and resiliency

Tools and Resources

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Ecosystem-based Adaptation

www.csc.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/wetlands

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Green Infrastructure

• Multi-objective planning

• Identify landscapes that provide community benefits

• Use as a dataset in the Roadmap process

Trainings available through the Digital Coast…..

• Introducing Green Infrastructure for Coastal Resilience

• GIS Tools for Strategic Conservation Planning

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C-CAP Land Cover AtlasLand cover and land change information for coastal regions

Available through the Digital Coast

• Provides useful county-level summaries

• Data are available for download and use in GIS

• Produces printable PDF reports

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Land cover change data sheet for 1996 to 2006

Miami-Dade County Example

Natural areas converted to development

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Land Cover Change data downloaded from the Land Cover Atlas

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CanVis Tool

Visualization

Alternatives

Communication

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Environmentally Endangered Lands (EEL) Program

Because of EEL, the public now owns: 17,275 acres

•150 acres of Tree Island, Prairie, & Scrub•190 acres of Tropical Hardwood Hammock•550 acres of Pine Rockland•16,385 acres of Freshwater & Coastal Wetlands

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Exercise: Ecosystem Profile

What natural resources would

you conserve to prepare for

hazards and climate change?