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Mercury and the Everglades. A Synthesis and Model for Complex Ecosystem Restoration - Volume I - The Evolution of the Everglades as a Perturbed Ecosystem and the Role of Atmospheric Mercury (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Mercury and the Everglades. A Synthesis and Model for Complex Ecosystem Restoration - Volume I - The Evolution of the Everglades as a Perturbed Ecosystem and the Role of Atmospheric Mercury (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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This book integrates 30 years of mercury research on the Florida
Everglades to inform scientists and policy makers. The Everglades
is an iconic ecosystem by virtue of its expanse; diversity of
biota; and multiple international designations. Despite this, the
Everglades has been subjected to multiple threats including:
habitat loss, hydrologic alterations, invasive species; and altered
water quality. Less well recognized as a threat to Everglades human
use and wildlife populations is the toxic metal, mercury. This
Volume focuses on sources of mercury to the Everglades from the
late-1980's when there was bewilderment as to why there were very
high levels of mercury in the Everglades food web. Soon came the
finding that mercury loadings from atmospheric deposition accounted
for over 95% of total input to the Everglades which resulted in
Florida conducting the most comprehensive mercury monitoring and
modeling study performed to date. Topics discussed in this Volume
include: (1) Why atmospheric deposition fluxes of mercury to the
Everglades are amongst the highest in the U.S; (2) That these are
overwhelmingly from sources outside of the U.S; (3) That mitigation
strategies for resolving the elevated food web mercury problem in
the Everglades that rely solely on reducing atmospheric mercury
inputs will not be effective for many decades; (4) That
consideration of other strategies, in particular controlling
factors related to Everglades mercury biogeochemical cycling seem
warranted.
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