Recent cattail expansion and possible relationships to water management: Changes in upper taylor slough (Everglades National Park, Florida, USA)

Environmental Management

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 720-733

  Surratt, Donatto ^a   Shinde, Dilip ^b   Aumen, Nick ^a  

^a C/o ARM Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge ^*  (United States)

^b Everglades National Park   (United States)

Author keywords

Cattail; Eutrophication; Everglades; Point source; Total phosphorus; Water quality

Indexed keywords

CATTAIL; EARLY WARNING; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ECOSYSTEM STRESS; EVERGLADES; EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK; FLORIDA , USA; HYDROPERIODS; LOADING RATE; MANAGEMENT OPERATION; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENTS; NUTRIENT LOADS; PERIPHYTONS; POINT SOURCES; SEDIMENT CORE ANALYSIS; TOTAL PHOSPHORUS; WATER PHOSPHORUS;

ECOSYSTEMS; LOADING; PHOSPHORUS; SURFACE WATERS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

EUTROPHICATION;

PHOSPHORUS; SURFACE WATER;

ARTHROPOD; CORE ANALYSIS; DISCHARGE; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; EUTROPHICATION; HERB; PERIPHYTON; PHOSPHORUS; POINT SOURCE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SURFACE WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EUTROPHICATION; NUTRIENT CONTENT; POPULATION GROWTH; TYPHA DOMINGENSIS; TYPHACEAE; UNITED STATES; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON; WATER FLOW;

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

ARTHROPODA; TYPHA; TYPHA DOMINGENSIS;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; EUTROPHICATION; FLORIDA; PHOSPHORUS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; TYPHACEAE; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84863606676     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-011-9798-x     Document Type: Article

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