Using hydrologic suitability for native Everglades slough vegetation to assess Everglades restoration scenarios

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 24, Issue , 2013, Pages 294-304

  Lo Galbo, Alicia M ^a   Zimmerman, Michael S ^a   Hallac, David ^b   Reynolds, Gregg ^a   Richards, Jennifer H ^c   Lynch, Janice H ^a  

^a Everglades National Park   (United States)

^b NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^c FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Everglades; Hydrology; Model; Nymphaea odorata; Restoration; Slough; Water lily

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS; ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS; EVERGLADES; EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK; EXISTING CONDITIONS; FIELD STUDIES; FLORIDA EVERGLADES; INDICATOR SPECIES; MESOCOSMS; NATURAL SYSTEMS; NYMPHAEA; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; PREDICTIVE PERFORMANCE; RESOURCE MANAGERS; SLOUGH; VEGETATION COMMUNITY; WATER CONSERVATION AREAS; WATER LILIES; WHITE WATER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DIGITAL STORAGE; HYDROLOGY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MODELS; VEGETATION; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER SUPPLY;

RESTORATION;

BIOINDICATOR; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; MESOCOSM; MONOCOTYLEDON; NATIVE SPECIES; PALEOECOLOGY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RIPARIAN VEGETATION;

EVERGLADES; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; LOXAHATCHEE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE; UNITED STATES;

LILIUM; NYMPHAEA; NYMPHAEA ALBA; NYMPHAEA ODORATA;

EID: 84864228347     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2012.06.011     Document Type: Article

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