Ecosystem Based Management Conference Session: Development of Habitat Suitability Models for Ecosyst
This meeting is open to the public. Unless otherwise noted, it may be recorded for internal use.
Date and Time
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 from 9:00am - 4:00pm
Purpose
Modeling efforts within the Chesapeake Bay have failed to effectively link water quality and habitat degradation or restoration to changes in living resource populations. Habitat suitability models represent a principal means to develop such associations but have not seen extensive development or application within the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. A 1.5 day workshop, Co-chaired by Dr.s David Secor and Denise Breitburg (Smithsonian Environmental Research Center), was held in Baltimore as part of the March 2009 Chesapeake Bay Research Consortium’s Ecosystem Based Management Conference. Experts presented state-of-the-art habitat suitability models that ranged from statistical approaches that permit water quality to be translated into living resource distribution maps to dynamic models that track individual oysters and fish as they respond to conditions that vary continuously.Location
Baltimore Harbor MarriottRelated Files
Meeting materials will be posted as they become available.