Landscape patterns of significant soil nutrients and contaminants in the greater everglades ecosystem: Past, present, and future

Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages 121-148

  Osborne, Todd Z ^a   Newman, Susan ^b   Scheidt, Daniel J ^c   Kalla, Peter I ^c   Bruland, Gregory L ^d   Cohen, Matthew J ^e   Scinto, Leonard J ^f   Ellis, Larry R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b EVERGLADES DIVISION   (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^f FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon; Everglades; landscape; mercury; phosphorus; soils; sulfur

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; BIOLOGICAL TOXICITY; DYNAMIC INTERACTION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSORS; EVERGLADES; LANDSCAPE; LANDSCAPE PATTERN; LANDSCAPE SCALE; LANDSCAPE-SCALE ASSESSMENTS; MERCURY; MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT; ORGANIC MATTER; P CYCLING; SAMPLING METHOD; SIGNIFICANT PATTERNS; SOIL ENRICHMENT; SOIL NUTRIENTS; SOIL THICKNESS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL SAMPLING;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; MERCURY (METAL); PHOSPHORUS; RATING; RESTORATION; SULFUR;

SOILS;

CARBON; MERCURY; ORGANIC MATTER; PHOSPHORUS; SULFUR;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; LANDSCAPE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PHOSPHORUS; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL TYPE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZATION; SULFUR; TOXICITY;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; FUTUROLOGY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NUTRIENT; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTANT; SOIL TEXTURE; UNITED STATES;

EVERGLADES; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79951823570     PISSN: 10643389     EISSN: 15476537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10643389.2010.530930     Document Type: Article

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