Visioning the Future: Scenarios Modeling of the Florida Coastal Everglades

Environmental Management

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 989-1009

  Flower, Hilary ^a   Rains, Mark ^a   Fitz, Carl ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b EcoLandMod Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Mangroves; Peat; Resilience; Restoration; Sea level rise

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PEAT; RAIN; SALT WATER INTRUSION; SEA LEVEL; WATER;

CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; FRESHWATER HABITATS; MANGROVES; RESILIENCE; SEA LEVEL RISE; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL PATTERN;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

FRESH WATER; PHOSPHORUS; RAIN; SEA WATER; SURFACE WATER;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MANGROVE; MICROCLIMATE; OPEN WATER; PEAT; RAINFALL; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SALINE INTRUSION; SALINITY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLORIDA; FOREST; HABITAT; HYDROLOGY; LANDSCAPE; MANGROVE; SALINITY; SEA LEVEL RISE; TOPOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORECASTING; SEA; SOIL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRENDS; WETLAND;

EVERGLADES; FLORIDA BAY; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

RHIZOPHORACEAE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FLORIDA; FORECASTING; FRESH WATER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; SOIL; WETLANDS;

EID: 85026831661     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-017-0916-2     Document Type: Article

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