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About Aquatic GAP
The concept of aquatic gap is to identify the gaps in conservation of
aquatic species or communities in order to provide managers, planners,
scientists, and policy makers
with the information they need to make better-informed decisions. The
gap analysis program uses a bottom up approach drawing upon mutual cooperation
of natural resource institutions (state, federal, and private) within
each State or region. A geographic information system (GIS) and relational
database are used as tools for gap analysis to map, summarize, characterize,
and assess the status of aquatic biodiversity and associated conservation
gaps for a given region.
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