Value
of Ecosystem Services offfered by Cleveland Metroparks |
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Ecosystem Type |
Service
Provided |
Reservation
Name |
Number
of acres of Ecosystem type |
Value
per acre of service |
Total
economic value of service |
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Forest |
Hydrologic services |
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$65/acre |
0 |
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Forest |
Carbon storage |
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250 ST/acre at
$54.27/ST carbon |
0 |
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Forest |
Air quality
maintenance |
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81 lb/ac/yr at
$2.35/lb |
0 |
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Forest |
Stormwater Control |
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2,835 cu ft/ac at
$2.05/cu ft |
0 |
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Forest |
Biodiversity/Habitat |
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$923/ac/yr |
0 |
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Forest |
Soil
formation/retention |
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$5/ac/yr |
0 |
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Total: |
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0 |
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Values per
acre are taken from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protections Economic Value of New Jersey State Parks and Forests. |
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Mates, W., and Reyes, J. The Economic Value
of New Jersey State Parks and Forests. New Jersey
Department of Environmental Protection Division of Science, Research, and
Technology. June 2004, Revised November 2006. |
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The value of of hydrologic and carbon storage services are for
the entire life of the ecosystem. The economic benefits of air quality
maintenance, stormwater control, biodiversity protection, and soil formation
and retention, however, are realized annually. |
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All values
have been inflated to 2009 dollars. |
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