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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.
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