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1 online resource (473 pages) |
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Cover; Half-Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Maps; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Author and Contributors; Introductions; Section I: Background; Chapter 1 An Ecosystem Overview: What Is (or Are) the Everglades?; A Unique and Valuable Ecosystem; Terms and Definitions; South Florida Climate and Weather; The Historic Everglades Region; Origin and Evolution of the Everglades; Chapter 2 The Everglades in Space and Time; Florida, Geologic Time, and Plate Tectonics; Limestone and Aquifers; Emergence of Land on the Florida Platform: The Peninsula |
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Sea Level, Climate, and the Birth of the EvergladesSection II: Environments of the Everglades Region; Chapter 3 Freshwater Marshes: Water, Weather, and Fire; Marsh Vegetation and Plant Communities; Sawgrass Marsh; Wet Prairies; Slough; Pond (Alligator Hole) and Creek; Water Levels in Everglades Peatlands; Water Quality; Periphyton: A Plant Community Atop Others; Marsh Soils; Weather and Fire; Ridge-and-Slough Landscape and Flow: The Cutting Edge of Everglades Science; Chapter 4 Tree Islands; Size and Location of Everglades Tree Islands; Kinds of Tree Islands: The Vernacular Names; Bayheads |
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Willows and Willow HeadsCypress, Cypress Domes, and Cypress Heads; Tree Island Evolution; Pop-Up or Battery Tree Islands; Strand Tree Islands; Fixed Tree Islands; Other Processes; Tree Island Moats; Pond Apple (Custard Apple); Integrity of Tree Islands; Chapter 5 Tropical Hardwood Hammocks; The Hammock Environment; Tree Height; The Strangler Fig; Hammocks, Fire, and Succession; Unpleasant Aspects of Hammocks; Hammocks and Wildlife; Chapter 6 Pinelands; Pinelands and Fire; South Florida Pine Rockland and Endemic Species; Pinelands in South Florida Ecological History |
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Chapter 7 The Big Cypress SwampConservation Units and Native American Lands; Surface Waters of the Big Cypress Region; Geology and Soils; Big Cypress Vegetation; Hammocks; Pinelands; Cypress Forests and Domes; Mixed Pine and Cypress Forest; Mixed Swamp Forest; Marl Prairies; Sloughs; Hydrology of Big Cypress Plant Communities; Integrity of the Big Cypress; Chapter 8 Mangrove Swamps; Kinds and Characteristics of Mangroves; Red Mangrove; Black Mangrove; White Mangrove, Buttonwood, and the Buttonwood Embankment; Mangrove Reproduction and Dispersal; Mangrove Swamp Soils and Soil Building |
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Oysters and Mangrove SwampsMangrove Swamps and Everglades Wildlife; Mangrove Swamps and Marine Fisheries; Legal Protection of Mangroves; Visiting a Mangrove Swamp; Chapter 9 Coastal Lowland Vegetation ... and Hurricanes!; Impacts of Hurricane Andrew on the Everglades; Hurricane Frequency and Environmental Impact in Southern Florida; Impacts of Hurricane Donna; The Hurricane Legacy: Coastal Lowland Vegetation; The White Zone-A Hurricane-Prone Landscape; Hurricanes and Glacial Cycles; Chapter 10 Estuarine and Coastal Marine Waters; Florida Bay: A Geologist's Classroom |
| Summary |
The Everglades Handbook: Understanding the Ecosystem, Fourth Edition is a scholarly reference packed cover to cover with scientific information about the ecosystem of the Everglades--taking into account how drastically the Everglades has changed. Topically, the book covers disciplines ranging from ecology, geology, climatology, hydrology, anthropology to consertive biology. Written in Tom Lodge's trademark accessible style, this extensively researched text is essential reading for anybody trying to understand the challenges we face in restoring this unique ecosystem. --Back cover |
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Florida Bay as Part of Everglades Restoration |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Ecosystem management-Florida-Everglades
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Everglades (Fla.)
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Swamp animals-Florida-Everglades
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Swamp ecology-Florida-Everglades
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Swamp plants-Florida-Everglades
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Swamp ecology -- Florida -- Everglades
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Swamp plants -- Florida -- Everglades
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Swamp animals -- Florida -- Everglades
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Ecosystem management -- Florida -- Everglades
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Ecosystem management
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Swamp animals
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Swamp ecology
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Swamp plants
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Everglades (Fla.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045981
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Florida -- Everglades
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781498742924 |
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1498742920 |
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