“Effective Monitoring to Evaluate Ecological Restoration in the Gulf of Mexico (2017)“ Final Now Available
NAS (2017). The Committee on Effective Approaches for Monitoring and Assessing Gulf of Mexico Restoration Activities report on Effective Monitoring to Evaluate Ecological Restoration in the Gulf of Mexico, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Washington, D.C., 219pp. DOI:
10.17226/23476. Oyster reefs play a key role in this document, along with wetlands, seagrass, birds sea turtles and marine mammals. In order to ensure that the restoration goals are met and money is well spent as funded for these restoration efforts, restoration monitoring and evaluation are discussed as integral parts of these programs. Assessments of past restoration efforts have shown that monitoring is often inadequate or even absent. See
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