Considering Fish as Recipients of Ecosystem Services Provides a Framework to Formally Link Baseline, Development, and Post-operational Monitoring Programs and Improve Aquatic Impact Assessments for Large Scale Developments.

Autor: Brown CJM; Department of Biology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada.; Canadian Rivers Institute, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada., Curry RA; Canadian Rivers Institute, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada.; Department of Biology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada.; Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada., Gray MA; Canadian Rivers Institute, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada.; Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada., Lento J; Canadian Rivers Institute, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada.; Department of Biology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada., MacLatchy DL; Department of Biology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada.; Canadian Rivers Institute, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada., Monk WA; Environment and Climate Change Canada @ Canadian Rivers Institute, Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada., Pavey SA; Department of Biological Sciences and Canadian Rivers Institute, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, NB, Canada., St-Hilaire A; Canadian Rivers Institute, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada.; Centre Eau Terre Environnement, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Québec, QC, Canada., Wegscheider B; Canadian Rivers Institute, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada.; Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada.; Institute of Ecology and Evolution and the Wyss Academy for Nature at the University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.; Department of Fish Ecology and Evolution, Swiss Federal Institute of Science and Technology (EAWAG), Kastanienbaum, Switzerland., Munkittrick KR; Canadian Rivers Institute, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada. kelly.munkittrick@ucalgary.ca.; Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada. kelly.munkittrick@ucalgary.ca.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Environmental management [Environ Manage] 2022 Aug; Vol. 70 (2), pp. 350-367. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 May 21.
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-022-01665-0
Abstrakt: In most countries, major development projects must satisfy an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process that considers positive and negative aspects to determine if it meets environmental standards and appropriately mitigates or offsets negative impacts on the values being considered. The benefits of before-after-control-impact monitoring designs have been widely known for more than 30 years, but most development assessments fail to effectively link pre- and post-development monitoring in a meaningful way. Fish are a common component of EIA evaluation for both socioeconomic and scientific reasons. The Ecosystem Services (ES) concept was developed to describe the ecosystem attributes that benefit humans, and it offers the opportunity to develop a framework for EIA that is centred around the needs of and benefits from fish. Focusing an environmental monitoring framework on the critical needs of fish could serve to better align risk, development, and monitoring assessment processes. We define the ES that fish provide in the context of two common ES frameworks. To allow for linkages between environmental assessment and the ES concept, we describe critical ecosystem functions from a fish perspective to highlight potential monitoring targets that relate to fish abundance, diversity, health, and habitat. Finally, we suggest how this framing of a monitoring process can be used to better align aquatic monitoring programs across pre-development, development, and post-operational monitoring programs.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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