The Everglades Handbook: Understanding the Ecosystem
The second edition of a bestseller, The Everglades Handbook: Understanding the Ecosystem continues to provide a wealth of information on the entire ecosystem of the Everglades. Offering the essentials of what the ecosystem is and how it works, the Handbook benefits those addressing issues such as Everglades restoration, water management, wildlife management, and water quality problems in urban and agricultural planning.\ With an emphasis on natural history, the text is unified around themes...
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The second edition of a bestseller, The Everglades Handbook: Understanding the Ecosystem continues to provide a wealth of information on the entire ecosystem of the Everglades. Offering the essentials of what the ecosystem is and how it works, the Handbook benefits those addressing issues such as Everglades restoration, water management, wildlife management, and water quality problems in urban and agricultural planning.With an emphasis on natural history, the text is unified around themes of biogeography and ecosystem functions of the plant and animal communities. It presents current and historical geology, discussions of human impacts, ecosystem degradation, and planned restoration, and covers the socioeconomic aspects of the Everglades ecosystem.What’s new in the Second Edition:• *Additional chapter on Big Cypress Swamp• *New section on Lake Okeechobee and its headwaters• *A new synthesis chapter which diagrams ecological succession and food webs
Introduction to the first editionRecollections - introduction to the second editionCh. 1The Everglades in space and time3Ch. 2An ecosystem overview13Ch. 3Freshwater marshes : water, weather, and fire25Ch. 4Tree islands43Ch. 5Tropical hardwood hammocks55Ch. 6Pinelands63Ch. 7The big cypress swamp67Ch. 8Mangrove swamps79Ch. 9Coastal lowland vegetation ... and hurricanes!87Ch. 10Coastal estuarine and marine waters95Ch. 11Lake Okeechobee and the Everglades headwaters105Ch. 12Origins of the flora and fauna127Ch. 13Invertebrates135Ch. 14Freshwater fishes145Ch. 15Marine and estuarine fishes153Ch. 16Amphibians157Ch. 17Reptiles161Ch. 18Mammals175Ch. 19Birds183Ch. 20Synthesis - ecological relationships and processes in the Everglades region203Ch. 21Man and the Everglades217
