Prescribing Solutions: Landscape-Based Land-Use Plans
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Plans and policies are enhanced by information generated in Step 1, which involves analyzing the role that wetlands play in landscape processes. Landscape processes both maintain and interact with wetlands and the functions they perform. Landscape processes can include physical processes such as those that maintain hydrology and the physical stability of shorelines; chemical processes such as those that maintain or degrade water quality; and ecological processes such as those that maintain habitats and species.
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