Impacts of past climate and sea level change on Everglades wetlands: Placing a century of anthropogenic change into a late-Holocene context

Climatic Change

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 59-80

  Willard, Debra A ^a   Bernhardt, Christopher E ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC CHANGES; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COASTAL VEGETATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FLORIDA BAY; FLORIDA EVERGLADES; FLORIDA KEYS; FRESHWATER FLOW; FRESHWATER MARSHES; HOLOCENE SEA LEVEL; HYDROLOGIC CHANGES; LAKE OKEECHOBEE; ORGANIC SOIL; PEAT ACCUMULATION; RELATIVE IMPACT; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL RISE; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SOUTH FLORIDA; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WETLAND PLANTS;

DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEMS; PEAT; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEA LEVEL; WETLANDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; COASTAL ZONE; GRASS; HOLOCENE; OXIDATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PEAT; PLANT COMMUNITY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

EVERGLADES; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; FLORIDA BAY; UNITED STATES;

NYMPHAEA;

EID: 79958794214     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0078-9     Document Type: Article

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