Florida Ecological Restoration Inventory
Ecological Benefit Descriptions
Benefit threatened/endangered species: Habitat to
support threatened/endangered species will be directly benefited.
Create buffers from physical disturbances:
Restoration activities would buffer an existing natural area from nearby
Expand/restore/enhance natural community: Increase
the spatial extent of a natural community.
Improve/protect aquifer recharge: Restoration
activities would contribute to improving or protecting aquifer recharge.
Improve/protect water quality: Eliminating or
controlling nutrient, chemical or other contaminant sources nearby or on this
unit will add to improving overall water quality of the system or decrease
nutrient loading to the soils/sediments within waterways.
Improve/restore fish and wildlife habitat:
Restoration activities would specifically benefit fish and wildlife species.
Improve/restore hydrologic connections: Improving
hydrologic connections (natural flow) affects the transport of materials into
and out of wetland systems; also affects the ability to receive flood waters
and moderate flow, receive and improve surface water run-off. Wetlands
disconnected and reconnected may also have an improved hydroperiod.
Improve/restore normal hydrology:
Improving/restoring normal hydrology affects the systems ability for normal
biogeochemical processing. Although restoring hydrologic connection, may
improve/restore the hydroperiod, the ecological benefit is different. For
isolated wetlands by nature are not hydrologically connected to other wetlands
and surface water bodies.
Protect cultural resource: Cultural resources will
be protected as a direct result of this project.