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RECOVER:
2009 RECOVER Monitoring and Assessment Plan (MAP)

The 2009 RECOVER Monitoring and Assessment Plan (MAP) is a refined version of MAP 2004 (MAP, Part 1: Monitoring and Supporting Research); the MAP 2004 describes the monitoring components and supporting research of the MAP and briefly summarizes the assessment process. The MAP 2009 utilizes the conceptual ecological model approach developed for the MAP 2004 and retains its focus on long-term system-wide monitoring and assessment; it also incorporates adaptive management (AM) principles as well as flexibility to address project-level monitoring.

The MAP 2009 provides a necessary update to the monitoring and assessment program in order to reflect refinements made since the 2004 MAP was released, including scientific information gathered over the past nine years. MAP 2009 incorporates lessons learned during development of the MAP, Part 2 (Assessment Strategy for the MAP) as well as the 2006 and 2007 System Status Reports (SSRs). These lessons learned include:

• Organization of monitoring and assessment data via hypothesis clusters rather than single hypotheses
• Assessment across geographic module boundaries
• Emphasis on development of a comprehensive data management system in order to adequately assess and report on the results of system-wide MAP monitoring.

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