Everglades Handbook Understanding the Ecosystem

Name: Everglades Handbook Understanding the Ecosystem
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ISBN: 9781566706148

ISBN-10: 1566706149

ISBN-13: 9781566706148

Edition: 2nd 2004 (Revised)

Authors: Thomas E. Lodge

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The second edition of a bestseller,The Everglades Handbook: Understanding the Ecosystem continues to provide a wealth of information on the entire ecosystem of the Everglades. Offering the essentials of what the ecosystem is and how it works, the Handbook benefits those addressing issues such as Everglades restoration, water management, wildlife management, and water quality problems in urban and agricultural planning.With an emphasis on natural history, the text is unified around themes of biogeography and ecosystem functions of the plant and animal communities. It presents current and historical geology, discussions of human impacts, ecosystem degradation, and planned restoration, and…

Book details

List price: $56.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: CRC Press
Publication date: 7/26/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



Background


The Everglades in space and time


An ecosystem overview


Environments Of The Everglades Region


Freshwater marshes: Water, weather, and fire


Tree Islands


Tropical hardwood hammocks


Pinelands


The Big Cypress Swamp


Mangrove swamps


Coastal lowland vegetationand hurricanes!Coastal estuarine and marine waters


Lake Okeechobee and the Everglades' headwaters


The Flora and Fauna Of Southern Florida


Origins of the flora and fauna


Invertebrates


Freshwater fishes


Marine and