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projects > ecosystem history: terrestrial and fresh-water ecosystems of southern florida
Summary
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This project is designed to document historical changes in terrestrial south
Florida.
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This project is designed to document the terrestrial ecosystem history of
south Florida and is collaborating with other projects at the USGS and
other agencies on Florida Bay, Biscayne Bay, and the Buttonwood
Embankment. The specific goals of the project are 1) document the
patterns of floral and faunal change at sites throughout southern Florida
over the last 150 years; 2) determine whether changes occurred throughout
the entire region or whether they were localized; 3) examine the floral
and faunal history of the region over the last few millennia; 4) determine
the baseline level of variability in the communities prior to significant
human activity in the region; and 5) determine whether the fire frequency,
extent, and influence can be quantified, and if so, document the fire
history for sites in the region. Data generated from this project will be
integrated with data from other projects to provide biotic reconstructions
for the area at selected time slices and will be useful in testing
ecological models designed to predict floral and faunal response to
changes in environmental parameters.
Proposals
Project Summaries
Accomplishments
Data
Metadata
Publications
Abstracts:
- The Biotic Record of Change in Florida Bay and the South Florida Ecosystem (from the Florida Bay Science Conference Proceedings, 1996, and can be found on the Ecosystem History: Florida Bay and the Southwest Coast project page)
- Changes of the sub-aqueous ecosystem in northeastern Florida Bay due to hydrologic changes in the southern Everglades (from the 2002 AGU Spring Meeting)
- Ecosystem History: Terrestrial and Fresh-water Ecosystems of Southern Florida
- The effect of phosphorous enriched waters on the timing and rate of cattail growth in the northern Florida Everglades (from the 2002 Spring AGU Meeting)
- Everglades Plant Community Response to 20th Century Hydrologic Changes (from the 2002 AGU Spring Meeting)
- Florida Bay Ecosystem: Measuring Historical Change (from the Florida Bay Science Conference Proceedings, 1995, and can be found on the Ecosystem History: Florida Bay and the Southwest Coast project page)
- The Florida Everglades Ecosystem: Climatic and Anthropogenic Impacts Over the Last Two Millenia (2001)
- The Florida Everglades Ecosystem: Climatic and Anthropogenic Impacts Over the Last Two Millenia (from the GEER Conference, December 2000)
- Impact of Hydrologic Changes on the Everglades/Florida Bay Ecosystem: A Regional, Paleoecological Perspective (from the Florida Bay and Adjacent Marine Systems Science Conference, November 1999)
- Paleoecological insights on fixed tree island development in the Florida Everglades: I. Environmental Controls (2002)
- Plant Communities of the Everglades: A History of the Last Two Millennia (from the South Florida Restoration Science Forum, May 1999)
- Pollen assemblages as paleoenvironmental proxies in the Florida Everglades (2001)
- Vegetational Changes in South Florida Over the Last Two Millenia
Article:
- Forgotten Islands (available on-line from the Audubon Magazine)
Fact Sheets:
- Ecosystem History: Terrestrial and Fresh-water Ecosystems of Southern Florida
- South Florida Ecosystems: Changes Through Time
Map:
Open File Reports:
- Palynological Census Data from Surface Samples in South Florida (document will open in a new browser window)
- Pollen Census Data from Southern Florida: Sites Along a Nutrient Gradient in Water Conservation Area 2A (document will open in a new browser window)
Paper:
- The Impact of Anthropogenic Land-Cover Change on the Florida Peninsula Sea Breezes and Warm Season Sensible Weather
Posters:
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A Paleoenvironmental Record from Manatee Bay, Barnes Sound, Florida
- What can soils tell us about the past that helps us today? (from the South Florida Restoration Science Forum site)
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