Summary of responses to Feshwater Tools Q

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Hi All,

Below is a summary of responses I received to my question. Feel free to contact me (or respondents below) for any of the papers I received.
Thanks to all.
Q. Does anyone know of any EBM tools, applications, references or case studies
which have been used for freshwater (aquatic) biodiversity only, preferably at the landscape scale ?

Reponses
1. From Patrick J Crist, PhD
The MANERR Tool Demonstration Project team will be publishing shortly the Integrated Land-Sea Planning Toolkit technical guide (stay tuned for announcement via the EBM Tools newsletter). This toolkit is comprised of 3 tools: CommunityViz (communityviz.org) for land use planning/growth modeling; NatureServe Vista (natureserve.org/vista) for conservation assessment and planning; and NOAA's N-SPECT (http://www.csc.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/tools/nspect/) for non-point source pollution modeling. The toolkit is intended to facilitate collaborative assessment and planning by evaluating the water quality and subsequent ecological/biodiversity impacts of various land use scenarios in freshwater, terrestrial, and (with additional tools) marine ecosystems. The toolkit interoperation was developed and tested on the Texas, USA coast and an initial practitioner training was conducted. Shortly the biodiversity component of this, Vista with N-SPECT will be shipped as a semi-automated interoperating toolkit (as NatureServe Vista 2.5). Both of those tools are free ESRI extensions.
2. Ken Vance-Borland
Here's a paper by Moilanen et al. (2007) using ZONATION for prioritizing rivers and steams in New Zealand; and another by Thieme et al. (2007) about freshwater conservation planning in Amazonia.

3. Bob Pressey
Not sure if this qualifies as EBM tools, but pls see attached. Three other things underway in my lab:

1. With Brazilian colleagues, I also have some spatial planning underway for the Amazon floodplain;
2. Prioritization of north Queensland wetlands for control of Hymenachne
3. Multi-objective decision making for coastal catchments.
4. Les Kauffman
Winooski Watershed MIMES (Lake Champlain region, Burlington, VT).

[cid:075571723@08072009-1C88]Dr Petina Pert
Spatial Analyst
Tropical Landscapes Program
CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems
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