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Concept: ecological assessment in the concept vocabulary

Concept URI http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/2440
Preferred label ecological assessment
Definition Ecological assessment consists in monitoring the current and changing conditions of ecological resources from which success or failure of the ecosystem can be judged without bias; understanding more fully the structure and function of ecosystems in order to develop improved management options; developing models to predict the response of ecosystems to changes resulting from human-induced stress from which possible ecosystem management strategies can be assessed and assessing the ecological consequences of management actions so that decisionmakers can best understand the outcomes of choosing a particular management strategy.
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Status Valid
Status Modified 2013-12-05
Accepted Date 2013-12-05
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