Predicting Ecological Responses of the Florida Everglades to Possible Future Climate Scenarios: Introduction

Environmental Management

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 741-748

  Aumen, Nicholas G ^a   Havens, Karl E ^b   Best, G Ronnie ^a   Berry, Leonard ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Ecological response; Everglades; Restoration

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FLOOD CONTROL; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; POLLUTION CONTROL; RESTORATION; RIVER POLLUTION; SEA LEVEL; WATER POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL; WATER SUPPLY;

ECOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; ECOLOGICAL RESPONSE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; EVERGLADES; HYDROLOGIC MODELING; INCREASED TEMPERATURE; RESTORATION PROGRAMS; WATER CONTROL STRUCTURES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORECASTING; HYDROLOGY; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; WETLAND;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FLORIDA; FORECASTING; HYDROLOGY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WETLANDS;

EID: 84939933641     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-014-0439-z     Document Type: Article

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