Hydrological drivers of wetland vegetation community distribution within Everglades National Park, Florida

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1279-1289

  Todd, Jason M ^a   Muneepeerakul, R ^a   Pumo, D ^a,b   Azaele, S ^a   Miralles Wilhelm, F ^c   Rinaldo, A ^d,e   Rodriguez Iturbe, I ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^e EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Everglades; Hydrology; Vegetation; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; DATA SETS; DRIVING FORCES; EVERGLADES; EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK; FLORIDA; HUMAN ACTIONS; HYDROLOGICAL PROPERTIES; PROBABILISTIC STRUCTURES; TEMPORAL SCALE; VEGETATION COMMUNITY; VEGETATION DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION TYPE; WETLAND ENVIRONMENT; WETLAND VEGETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDROLOGY; PARKS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; WATER; WETLANDS;

VEGETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DATA SET; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION TYPE; WETLAND;

EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

RHIZOPHORA MANGLE;

EID: 78049294623     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2010.04.003     Document Type: Article

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