The Everglades Experiments : Lessons for Ecosystem Restoration - Richardson, Curtis; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2008)
Everglades Ecosystem -- Overview of Gradient Studies and Experiments -- Ecological Status of the Everglades: Environmental and Human Factors that Control the Peatland Complex on the Landscape -- Soil Characteristics of the Everglades Peatland -- Vegetation and Algae of the Everglades Fen -- Nutrient and Hydrologic Gradient Studies -- to the Gradient Studies -- Enrichment Gradients in WCA-2A and Northern WCA-3A: Water, Soil, Plant Biomass, and Nutrient Storage Responses -- Geologic Settings and Hydrology Gradients in the Everglades -- Effects of Hydrologic Management Decisions on Everglades Tree Islands -- Macrophyte Community Responses in the Everglades with an Emphasis on Cattail (Typha domingensis) and Sawgrass (Cladium jamaicense) Interactions along a Gradient of Long-Term Nutrient Additions, Altered Hydroperiod, and Fire -- Algal Responses to Long-Term Nutrient Additions -- Macroinvertebrate Responses to a Gradient of Long-Term Nutrient Additions, Altered Hydroperiod, and Fire -- Historical Changes in Water Quality and Vegetation in WCA-2A Determined by Paleoecological Analyses -- Carbon Cycling and Dissolved Organic Matter Export in the Northern Everglades -- Everglades Experiments -- to a Mesocosm Approach for Establishment of Phosphorus Gradient Experiments -- Water Quality, Soil Chemistry, and Ecosystem Responses to P Dosing -- Macrophyte Slough Community Response to Experimental Phosphorus Enrichment and Periphyton Removal -- Decomposition of Litter and Peat in the Everglades: The Influence of P Concentrations -- Experimental Assessment of Phosphorus Effects on Algal Assemblages in Dosing Mesocosms -- Macroinvertebrate and Fish Responses to Experimental P Additions in Everglades Sloughs -- Plant Community Response to Long-Term N and P Fertilization -- The Effects of Disturbance, Phosphorus, and Water Level on Plant Succession in the Everglades -- Establishment and Seedling Growth of Sawgrass and Cattail from the Everglades -- Modeling Ecosystem Responses to Phosphorus Additions -- Long-Term Phosphorus Assimilative Capacity (PAC) in the Everglades -- Spatial Distributions of Total Phosphorus and Phosphorus Accretion Rates in Everglades Soils -- An Ecological Basis for Establishment of a Phosphorus Threshold for the Everglades Ecosystem -- Lessons for Restoration of the Everglades -- An Ecological Approach for Restoration of the Everglades Fen.
Keywords: Ecology .; Environmental management; Water pollution; Nature conservation; Aquatic ecology .; Ecology; Environmental Management; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution; Nature Conservation; Freshwater & Marine Ecology