Predicted Changes in Interannual Water-Level Fluctuations Due to Climate Change and Its Implications for the Vegetation of the Florida Everglades

Environmental Management

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 799-806

  van der Valk, Arnold G ^a   Volin, John C ^b   Wetzel, Paul R ^c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Peatland; Ridge and slough topography; Succession; Vegetation; Wetland; Wetland hydrology

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGY; RAIN; SOILS; VEGETATION; WATER LEVELS; WETLANDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; EXTREME CLIMATES; FLORIDA EVERGLADES; PEATLAND; SUCCESSION; WATER-LEVEL FLUCTUATION; WETLAND HYDROLOGY; WETLAND VEGETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

RAIN; SOIL;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FORECASTING; PLANT; SOIL; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; WATER FLOW; WETLAND;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FLORIDA; FORECASTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANTS; RAIN; SOIL; WATER MOVEMENTS; WETLANDS;

EID: 84939945361     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-014-0434-4     Document Type: Article

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