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Author : Benjamin F. McPherson,Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Ecology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007627750
Description of the south Florida ecosystem and changes resulting from man's activities.
Author : Howard T. Odum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781351450768
With its lush wetlands, miles of beaches, and wide array of colorful wildlife, Florida is a fascinating and important ecosystem to study. Using this state as a model, Environment and Society in Florida offers a whole systems approach to understanding the environment and discusses the interactions between human systems and natural systems. It addresses the complicated issues stemming from these interactions among population, resources, economics, and environment, and discusses how we may better manage these challenges in the future.
Author : Benjamin F. McPherson,Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Ecology
ISBN : PSU:000013431587
Description of the south Florida ecosystem and changes resulting from man's activities.
Author : Ross McCluney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Nature
ISBN : UCAL:B3853983
Author : Benjamin F. McPherson,Robert B. Halley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : OSU:32435077349025
Author : William L. Kruczynski,Pamela J. Fletcher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Marine ecosystem management
ISBN : 0982230532
Author : Albert R. Veri,William W. Jenna,Dorothy Eden Bergamaschi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : STANFORD:36105030243849
Author : Working Group of the South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Task Force (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Ecosystem management
ISBN : IND:30000050365927
Water is the common lifeline for the natural and built environments in South Florida. Engineered flood control and water distribution systems, agriculture, growth, and development have disrupted the region's water quality, quantity, timing, and distribution (i.e., the hydropattern). Agricultural runoff and urban stormwater have introduced high levels of phosphorus, mercury, and other contaminants into the water system, polluting lakes, rivers, estuaries and the Everglades.
Author : James A. Kushlan
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813065489
For centuries, the southernmost region of the Florida peninsula was seen by outsiders as wild and inaccessible, one of the last frontiers in the quest to understand and reveal the natural history of the continent. Seeking the American Tropics tells the stories of the explorers and adventurers who—for better and for worse—helped open the unique environment of South Florida to the world. Beginning with the arrival of Juan Ponce de León in 1513, James Kushlan describes how most of the famous Spanish explorers never made it to South Florida, leaving the area’s rich natural history out of scientific records for the next 250 years. It wasn’t until the British colonial and early American periods that the first surveyors were commissioned and the first naturalists—Titian Peale and John James Audubon—arrived to collect, draw, and report the subtropical flora and fauna that were so unique to North America. Moving into the railroad era, Kushlan illuminates the activities of scientists such as Henry Nehrling and Charles Torrey Simpson alongside the dabbling of wealthy amateur naturalists. He follows the story to the 1920s, when tourism was flourishing and signs of ecological damage were starting to show. Years of wildlife trade, resource extraction, invasive species introduction, and swamp drainage had taken their toll. And many of the naturalists who had been outspoken about protecting South Florida’s environment had also played a part in its destruction. Today the region is among one of the most thoroughly studied places on the planet—but at a cost. In this absorbing and cautionary tale, Kushlan illustrates how exploration has so often trumped conservation throughout history. He exposes how much of the natural world we have already lost in this vivid portrait of the Florida of yesterday.
Author : Risa Palm,Toby Bolsen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030326029
South Florida is frequently cited as the part of the United State of America as most susceptible to the devastation accompanying sea level rise. Several scholarly studies have shown the negative impact of coastal location in Florida on housing values. Are the residents of South Florida concerned? Is susceptibility to sea level rise actually affecting the housing market in terms of demand, the availability of home mortgages, or house prices? Are people living at particular risk from sea level rise aware of this risk and more open to new information about climate change? Do they support policies and laws to mitigate the pace and extent of climate change? Answers to these questions are not only of general interest, but they are also key to our understanding of the human dimensions of this problem. This book describes the results of a detailed survey in which respondents viewed a local map displaying flooding to their own community that would result from a Category 3 hurricane in 2033. It discusses political party identification and ideology that has an overwhelming impact in shaping views about sea level rise and climate change. This book has enormous implications for the effectiveness of communicating risk information. The text is important if we, as a nation, are to design communication strategies that will lead to broader policy to combat or mitigate this risk.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:916285659
Author : Frank S. Gilliam,James W. Fourqurean,Wade H. Jeffrey,Hilary M. Swain
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889743322
Author : Daniel L. Childers,Evelyn Gaiser,Laura A. Ogden
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780190869007
The Coastal Everglades presents a broad overview and synthesis of research on the coastal Everglades, a region that includes Everglades National Park, adjacent managed wetlands, and agricultural and urbanizing communities. Contributors for this volume are all collaborators on the Florida Coastal Everglades Long-Term Ecological Research Program (FCE LTER). The FCE LTER began in 2000 with a focus on understanding key ecosystem processes in the coastal Everglades, while also developing a platform for and linkages to related work conducted by an active and diverse Everglades research community. The program is based at Florida International University in Miami, but includes scientists and students from numerous other universities as well as staff scientists at key resource management agencies, including Everglades National Park and the South Florida Water Management District. Though the Everglades landscape spans nearly a third of the State of Florida, the focus on the coastal Everglades has allowed the contributors to examine key questions in social-ecological science in the context of ongoing restoration initiatives. As this book demonstrates, the long-term research of the FCE LTER has facilitated a better understanding of the roles of sea level rise, water management practices, urban and agricultural development, and other disturbances, such as fires and storms, on the past and future dynamics of this unique coastal environment. By comparing properties of the Everglades with other subtropical and tropical wetlands, the book challenges ideas of novelty while revealing properties of ecosystems at the ends of gradients that are often ignored. It also provides insights from, and encouragement for, long-term collaborative studies that inform resource management in similarly threatened coastal wetland landscapes.
Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Life Sciences,Committee on Ecological Impacts of Climate Change
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309127103
The world's climate is changing, and it will continue to change throughout the 21st century and beyond. Rising temperatures, new precipitation patterns, and other changes are already affecting many aspects of human society and the natural world. In this book, the National Research Council provides a broad overview of the ecological impacts of climate change, and a series of examples of impacts of different kinds. The book was written as a basis for a forthcoming illustrated booklet, designed to provide the public with accurate scientific information on this important subject.
Author : Ronald L. Myers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 765 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1990-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0813010128
"An important book that everyone who works on Florida environmental policy in any way should own . . . [and] anyone who cares about nature in Florida would love to own."--Tallahassee Democrat "The first comprehensive guide to the state's natural resources to be written in half a century . . . invaluable"--Tampa Tribune "Ecosystems of Florida has a proud heritage. Its authors have the same skill and enthusiasm that characterized the early Florida ecologists. The descriptions will encourage and delight a multitude of men and women who are enamored of Florida's landscapes. The salvation of the Florida scene will come about only if the public savors its beauty, understands its limitations, and speaks up for its preservation. This book has come just in time to save the landscapes of Florida."--Marjorie Harris Carr, from the foreword Between roughly 25 and 31 degrees north latitude, a combination of flat topography, poor soils, and limited surface water produce deserts nearly everywhere on earth. In Florida, however, these conditions support a lavish biota, more diverse than that of any other state east of the Mississippi. In this first comprehensive guide to the state's natural resources in sixty years, thirty top scholars describe the character, relationships, and importance of Florida's ecosystems, the organisms that inhabit them, the forces that maintain them, and the agents that threaten them. From pine flatwoods to coral reef, Ecosystems of Florida provides a detailed, comprehensive, authoritative account of the peninsular state's complex, fragile environments. In straightforward text, charts, maps, and illustrations, Ecosystems of Florida offers broad vision and detailed expertise to naturalists, wildlife managers, land use planners, foresters, and other professional and general readers interested in Florida's environmental resources. For the foreseeable future, it will serve as the authoritative guide to the state's environment and to those who would work with it.
