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1 online resource (162 pages) |
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""Assessment of the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Studies Program""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""THE PRESENT STUDY""; ""MARINE BIRDS, MAMMALS, AND TURTLES""; ""BENTHIC PROCESSES""; ""FISHERIES AND ECOSYSTEMS""; ""GENERAL CONCLUSIONS""; ""GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""1 Introduction""; ""OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF ACTIVITIES""; ""Magnitude and Management""; ""Environmental Concerns""; ""THE ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES PROGRAM""; ""Mandate""; ""History of the Environmental Studies Program""; ""Development of a Studies Plan"" |
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""Implementation of Studies According to Lease-Sale Schedules""""MMS Support of Ecological Studies""; ""THE PRESENT STUDY AND REPORT""; ""2 Principles of Assessment ""; ""FOCUS AND GEOGRAPHIC EXTENT OF STUDIES""; ""ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABILITY: DETECTING THE EFFECTS OF OCS ACTIVITIES""; ""Testing Hypotheses""; ""Different Approaches for Different Species Groups""; ""STUDIES OF MARINE BIRDS, MAMMALS, TURTLES, AND ENDANGERED SPECIES""; ""Selection of Species for Study""; ""Distribution and Abundance""; ""Ecological Processes""; ""Relationship of Distribution to Oceanic Features"" |
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""Trophic Relationships""""Population Processes""; ""Community and Ecosystem Processes""; ""Specific OCS Impacts""; ""Effects of External Oiling""; ""Toxic Effects of Ingested Oil and Other Physiological Effects""; ""Trophic Effects""; ""Disturbance""; ""Other Potential Effects""; ""CHARACTERIZATION OF BENTHIC ENVIRONMENTS""; ""FISHERIES""; ""ECOSYSTEM MODELING""; ""3 Analysis of the Program ""; ""BIRDS""; ""Allocation of Program Effort""; ""Assessment of Results""; ""Selection of Species and Locations for Study""; ""Colony Inventories""; ""At-Sea Inventories"" |
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""Shoreline Habitat Inventories""""Colony Process Studies""; ""At-Sea Process Studies""; ""Effects Studies, Modeling, and Estimation of Risk""; ""Gaps in the Available Data""; ""Colony Inventories""; ""At-Sea Inventories""; ""Shoreline Habitat Inventories""; ""Colony Process Studies""; ""At-Sea Process Studies""; ""Shoreline and Nearshore Process Studies""; ""Effects""; ""Models and Estimation of Risk""; ""Recommendations for Future Research""; ""Colony Inventories""; ""At-Sea Inventories""; ""Shoreline Habitat Inventories""; ""Colony Process Studies""; ""At-Sea Process Studies"" |
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""Shoreline Process Studies""""Effects and Risk Studies""; ""Modeling Studies""; ""Coordination, Cooperation, and Organization""; ""SEA TURTLES""; ""MARINE MAMMALS""; ""Introduction""; ""Environmental Studies Program and Results""; ""Inventory""; ""Effects""; ""Ecological Processes""; ""Gaps in Available Data""; ""Inventory""; ""Effects""; ""Ecological Processes""; ""Conclusions and Recommendations""; ""Inventory""; ""Effects""; ""Ecological Processes""; ""Data Management and Accessibility""; ""BENTHIC STUDIES""; ""Accomplishments of the Environmental Studies Program"" |
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""Shortcomings of the Environmental Studies Program"" |
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Print version record |
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Environmental Studies Program (U.S.) -- Evaluation
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| SUBJECT |
Environmental Studies Program (U.S.) fast |
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Continental shelf -- United States
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Environmental impact analysis -- United States
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Offshore oil industry -- Environmental aspects -- United States
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Oil and gas leases -- United States
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Continental shelf
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Environmental impact analysis
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Evaluation
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Offshore oil industry -- Environmental aspects
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Oil and gas leases
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780309537766 |
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0309537762 |
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