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Estimating biotic integrity to capture existence value of freshwater ecosystems

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) uses a water quality index (WQI) to estimate benefits of proposed Clean Water Act regulations. The WQI is relevant to human use value, such as recreation, but may not fully capture aspects of nonuse value, such as existence value. Here, we identify an ind...

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Autores principales: Hill, Ryan A., Moore, Chris C., Doyle, Jessie M., Leibowitz, Scott G., Ringold, Paul L., Rashleigh, Brenda
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Academy of Sciences 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10161049/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37094141
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2120259119