Potential Effects of Climate Change on Florida’s Everglades

Environmental Management

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 824-835

  Nungesser, M ^a   Saunders, C ^a   Coronado Molina, C ^a   Obeysekera, J ^a   Johnson, J ^b   McVoy, C ^c   Benscoter, B ^d  

^a SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT   (United States)

^b The Institute for Regional Conservation   (United States)

^c CMV and Co   (United States)

^d FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive restoration planning; Climate change; Everglades; Everglades restoration

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLOODS; PLANTS (BOTANY); RAIN; RESTORATION; SEA LEVEL; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; WETLANDS;

ANIMAL COMMUNITIES; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL UNCERTAINTY; EVERGLADES; EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK; NATURAL LANDSCAPES; REGIONAL HYDROLOGICAL MODEL; RESTORATION PLANNING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

RAIN; SOIL; WATER;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PEATLAND; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; TROPICAL REGION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER DEPTH;

ANIMAL COMMUNITY; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; EVERGLADES; EXOTIC SPECIES; HYDROLOGY; NATIONAL PARK; SEA LEVEL RISE; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES; WATER MANAGEMENT; WETLAND; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PROCEDURES; SOIL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DROUGHTS; ECOSYSTEM; FLORIDA; HYDROLOGY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RAIN; SOIL; WATER; WETLANDS;

EID: 84925814070     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-014-0417-5     Document Type: Article

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