Great Lakes Aquatic Gap Project
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About Aquatic GAPThe concept of aquatic gap is to identify the gaps in conservation of
aquatic species or communities in order to provide managers, planners,
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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.