MarshRAM User's Guide
The MarshRAM User's Guide are a set of detailed instructions on how to conduct and interpret Salt Marsh Rapid Assessment Method, MarshRAM.
The Salt Marsh Rapid Assessment Method (MarshRAM) adapts concepts and protocols from prior work to provide users with a single, efficient method designed to document information on salt marsh physical and biological attributes, classification, relative functions and values, geomorphic and landscape setting, human disturbances, vulnerability, and landward migration potential. MarshRAM is the result of a multi-year development and testing program that included application across Narragansett Bay and coastal Rhode Island, analyses of functionality and subjectivity, demonstrations of applicability, validations against landscape-scale data, and input from state, federal, academic, and regional technical advisors and reviewers.
Suggested citation:
Kutcher, T.E. 2022. MarshRAM User's Guide. Prepared for RI Dept. of Env. Mgmt. DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.24772758
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- Community ecology (excl. invasive species ecology)
- Marine and estuarine ecology (incl. marine ichthyology)
- Biological oceanography
- Climate change impacts and adaptation not elsewhere classified
- Ecosystem function
- Ecosystem services (incl. pollination)
- Ecological applications not elsewhere classified
- Conservation and biodiversity
- Environmental assessment and monitoring
- Environmental management
- Environmental rehabilitation and restoration
- Natural resource management
- Wildlife and habitat management
- Environmental biogeochemistry
- Other environmental sciences not elsewhere classified
