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Biodiversity Hot Spot
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Cold Front
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Fishery
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Flooding
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Ecosystem report cards act as the ultimate synthesis tool for communicating vast amounts of information relevant to the general public and policy decision-makers. This pyramid shows where report cards fit within the spectrum of information density and information synthesis.
Information spectrum for ecosystem report cards
The sequence of events leading to record harmful algal blooms in the Indian River Lagoon ecosystem in March 2016. Over 100 tons of fish were killed.
A deadly sequence of events in Florida
Egg from Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) nest found on busy gravel parking lot in Talbot County Maryland.
Killdeer egg
Conceptual diagram illustrating ecosystem characteristics along the George Washington Bridge Transect. Source: New York Harbor: Resilience in the face of four centuries of development.        http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2016.06.004
George Washington Bridge Transect
Conceptual diagram illustrating ecosystem characteristics along the Midtown Manhattan Transect. Source: New York Harbor: Resilience in the face of four centuries of development. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2016.06.004
Midtown Manhattan Transect
Conceptual diagram illustrating ecosystem characteristics along the Statue of Liberty Transect. Source: New York Harbor: Resilience in the face of four centuries of development. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2016.06.004
Statue of Liberty Transect
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