Abstract
Billions of dollars will be spent on large-scale restoration of Gulf ecosystems over
the coming decades, but there is no shared platform to guide assessment and reporting
of restoration progress and effectiveness for the broad set of environmental, social,
and economic goals shared by the many institutions working in the Gulf. The GEMS (Gulf
of Mexico Ecosystem Service Logic Models and Socio-economic Indicators) project aims
to advance standardized metrics of restoration success by developing ecosystem service
logic models (ESLMs) with stakeholders from the five Gulf states, relevant federal
agencies, and technical experts. ESLMs trace the effects of restoration strategies
as they influence ecological and social systems to create outcomes that are important
to people. This report presents a general ESLM for oyster reef restoration, representing
all of the outcomes from oyster reef restoration that are significant, tightly tied
to oyster reef restoration, and important to the local community, and an evidence
library summarizing the scientific evidence supporting each of the relationships shown
in the ESLM.
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