Hydrologic modification and the loss of self-organized patterning in the ridge-slough mosaic of the Everglades

Ecosystems

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 813-827

  Watts, Danielle L ^a   Cohen, Matthew J ^a   Heffernan, James B ^b   Osborne, Todd Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

alternative stable states; bi modality; biogeomorphology; patterned landscape; peat accretion; scale dependent feedbacks

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; DOMINANCE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; GRASS; HYDROLOGY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND MANAGEMENT; MACROPHYTE; PERIPHYTON; SOIL EROSION; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; WATER DEPTH;

EVERGLADES; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

CLADIUM JAMAICENSE;

EID: 77955918433     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-010-9356-z     Document Type: Article

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