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- Title
- The citrus industry and occupations in Florida.
- Name/Creator
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United States, Mead, Arthur Raymond, PALMM (Project)
- Abstract/Description
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"Prepared to provide occupational information for youth in high schools, to a lesser degree in colleges and universities, and to out-of-school unemployed." -- Introduction. Gives descriptions of the specific jobs that are performed in the citrus industry, at all stages, from growing to packing or canning the fruit, and at various levels, from laborer to management. Includes statistics on production, trade, and characteristics of citrus industry workers, as well as a discussion of the citrus...
Show more"Prepared to provide occupational information for youth in high schools, to a lesser degree in colleges and universities, and to out-of-school unemployed." -- Introduction. Gives descriptions of the specific jobs that are performed in the citrus industry, at all stages, from growing to packing or canning the fruit, and at various levels, from laborer to management. Includes statistics on production, trade, and characteristics of citrus industry workers, as well as a discussion of the citrus market and excerpts from various documents relating to the industry.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1938?, 1938-01-01T05:00:00.000Z
- Format
- E-book
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/CF00001661.jpg
- Title
- Census, Hillsborough County Florida, Volume 1 (1824-1840).
- Name/Creator
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Gordon, Julius J., United States, PALMM (Project)
- Date Issued
- 1991-, 1991, 1991, 1991-01-01T05:00:00.000Z, 1991-01-01T05:00:00.000Z, 1991-01-01T05:00:00.000Z
- Format
- E-book
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/SN0AAC0043
- Title
- Census, Hillsborough County Florida, Volume II (1841-1883).
- Name/Creator
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Gordon, Julius J., United States, PALMM (Project)
- Date Issued
- 1991-, 1991, 1991, 1991-01-01T05:00:00.000Z, 1991-01-01T05:00:00.000Z, 1991-01-01T05:00:00.000Z
- Format
- E-book
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/SN0AAC0043
- Title
- Hillsborough County Florida directory, census 1890.
- Name/Creator
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Gordon, Julius J., United States, PALMM (Project)
- Date Issued
- 1993, 1993-01-01T05:00:00.000Z
- Format
- E-book
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/usf/dc/SF00000355.pdf, http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/SF00000355.pdf, http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/SF00000355.jpg
- Title
- Water conditions in the Shark River Estuary of Everglades National Park.
- Name/Creator
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Everglades National Park (Agency : U.S.), United States, Geological Survey (U.S.), PALMM (Project)
- Abstract/Description
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The monthly range of chlorinity in the estuary was the lowest for the month of July since the beginning of record in 1962. The downstream low salinities resulted from heavy rains in previous months. For instance, in June 1966 a record rainfall in excess of 20 inches fell on the open glades. During the month the 500 parts per million (ppm) isochlor, which is essentially the fresh-brackish water line, fluctuated between mid-Tarpoon Bay and the upper Shark River.
- Date Issued
- 1966-07, 1966-07, 1966-07-01T04:00:00.000Z, 1966-07-01T04:00:00.000Z
- Format
- E-book
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/mca/FI05032101.pdf, http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/mca/FI05032101.jpg, http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI05032101.pdf, http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI05032101.jpg
- Title
- Water resources for central and southern Florida: main report.
- Name/Creator
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United States, PALMM (Project)
- Abstract/Description
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The Central and Southern Florida Project was authorized by Congress in 1948 and was modified by later acts. The project provided for flood protection, drainage, and allied purposes including conservation of water for use in dry periods. At the time of this report, the project was about 55 percent complete and many of the benefits had been realized. There was a need, however, for additional provisions for water supply.
- Date Issued
- 1968, 1968-01-01T05:00:00.000Z
- Format
- E-book
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI06012499.pdf, http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI06012499.jpg
- Title
- Nitrogen and Phosphorus Uptake in the Everglades Conservation Areas, Florida, with Special Reference to the Effects of Backpumping Runoff: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations 76-29.
- Name/Creator
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McPherson, Benjamin F., Waller, Bradley G., Mattraw, H. C., United States, PALMM (Project)
- Abstract/Description
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In much of the water pumped into the northern Everglades, Florida,concentrations of inorganic nitrogen and phosphorus are relatively high. These nutrients are transported in the canals or into the peripheral marshes. Concentrations decrease sharply within 330 feet or less of the canals, whereas specific conductance remains essentially unchanged within this distance. The sharp decrease in inorganic nitrogen and phosphorus near the canal edge indicates net uptake in these shallow waters....
Show moreIn much of the water pumped into the northern Everglades, Florida,concentrations of inorganic nitrogen and phosphorus are relatively high. These nutrients are transported in the canals or into the peripheral marshes. Concentrations decrease sharply within 330 feet or less of the canals, whereas specific conductance remains essentially unchanged within this distance. The sharp decrease in inorganic nitrogen and phosphorus near the canal edge indicates net uptake in these shallow waters. Concentrations of nitrogen and phosphorus also decrease as water moves through the conservation areas in canals. The authors suggest that the decrease is due partly to dilution by rainfall and runoff, and partly to net uptake in the canals and their peripheral marsh., (DTIC Abstract): Water backpumped into Conservation Areas 1 and 3 is confined largely to canals and peripheral marshes. Water pumped into Area 2 extends into the interior marshes. Water that is backpumped into all three areas can alter water quality in the canals by breaking up water stratification,by resuspending bottom sediments, and by introducing water of a different chemical character. Concentrations of nitrogen and phosphorus decrease as water moves through the conservation areas in canals. This decrease is due partly to dilution by rainfall and runoff, and partly to net uptake in the canals and peripheral marsh. Uptake, estimated for three canals, accounted for a 2-percent decrease in phosphorus per mile and a 4-percent decrease in nitrogen per mile.
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- 1976-06, 1976-06-01T04:00:00.000Z
- Format
- E-book
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI02879610.pdf, http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI02879610.jpg
- Title
- Survey-review report on Central and Southern Florida project, South Dade County.
- Name/Creator
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United States, PALMM (Project)
- Abstract/Description
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"This report reviews the Comprehensive Report on Central and Southern Florida for Flood Control and Other purposes (H. Doc. No. 643, 80th Cong., 2d sess.) with respect to flood- and water-control problems in a portion of South Dade County. Field investigations for this report included meteorologic, geologic, hydrographic, and economic surveys of the area. Available data developed in connection with design memorandum studies on the Central and Southern Florida Project were reviewed and brought...
Show more"This report reviews the Comprehensive Report on Central and Southern Florida for Flood Control and Other purposes (H. Doc. No. 643, 80th Cong., 2d sess.) with respect to flood- and water-control problems in a portion of South Dade County. Field investigations for this report included meteorologic, geologic, hydrographic, and economic surveys of the area. Available data developed in connection with design memorandum studies on the Central and Southern Florida Project were reviewed and brought up to date, and material submitted by local interests was given careful consideration., General inspections were made to determine the area subject to flooding. The Central and Southern Florida Flood Control District, a State organization representing local interests, and local landowners were consulted. Coordination with other government agencies is also discussed"--P. 2.
Show less - Format
- E-book
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI05112401.pdf, http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI05112401.jpg
- Title
- Recommendations to clean up and protect the Biscayne Aquifer in Southeast Florida.
- Name/Creator
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United States, Meridian Communications, Rifkin and Associates, CH2M Hill, inc, PALMM (Project)
- Abstract/Description
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The Biscayne Aquifer is an underground pool of water that provides virtually all the water used by people and businesses in the area. By nature, it's clean, fresh water. Thousands of public and private wells are drilled into the aquifer and those wells supply water to about three million people in Dade, Broward, southern Palm Beach and eastern Monroe Counties. But even though it's underground, the water is close to the surface and can easily get polluted.
- Date Issued
- 1985-11, 1985-11-01T05:00:00.000Z
- Format
- E-book
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI05030703.pdf, http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI05030703.jpg
- Title
- South Florida ecological study. Appendix IV. Distribution of pesticides in a south Florida watershed.
- Name/Creator
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Harriss, Robert C., United States, PALMM (Project)
- Abstract/Description
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This report gives the results of a survey of pesticides in soils, canal sediments and estuarine sediments in the Everglades watershed. The extremely low solubility of the persistent organochlorine pesticides and their tendency to adsorb on particulate matter suggests that the most likely mode of transport of pesticides from agricultural areas to the estuaries will be in association with sediments.
- Date Issued
- 1973-03, 1973-03-01T05:00:00.000Z
- Format
- E-book
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI05032501.pdf, http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI05032501.jpg
- Title
- Investigations into the mineral nutrition of sawgrass using experimental culture techniques.
- Name/Creator
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Steward, Kerry K., Ornes, W. Harold (Walter Harold), United States, United States, PALMM (Project)
- Abstract/Description
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"Sawgrass (Cladium Jamaicense Crantz) seedlings were grown in virgin soil in a greenhouse to determine the mineral-nutrient status of plants in the field, as well as their response to nutrient enrichment. Addition of small quantities of phosphorus produced significant increases in dry weight, shoot length, and vegetative reproduction of new plants. Growth responses of seedlings were highly related to P levels in tissues. There appeared to be an optimum P level in tissue, however, as higher...
Show more"Sawgrass (Cladium Jamaicense Crantz) seedlings were grown in virgin soil in a greenhouse to determine the mineral-nutrient status of plants in the field, as well as their response to nutrient enrichment. Addition of small quantities of phosphorus produced significant increases in dry weight, shoot length, and vegetative reproduction of new plants. Growth responses of seedlings were highly related to P levels in tissues. There appeared to be an optimum P level in tissue, however, as higher levels inhibited dry-matter production, shoot elongation, and new shoot production. This was a signifcant finding, indicating that serious consequences may result from discharging nutrient-rich waters into the Everglades marshes. Critical P concentration was determined to be higher in seedlings than in sawgrass plants from the field. It was concluded that experimentally determined critical nutrient levels do not adequately diagnose the nutrient status of plants in the field"--Transmittal letter.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1973, 1973-01-01T05:00:00.000Z
- Format
- E-book
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI05032509.pdf, http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI05032509.jpg
- Title
- Modified Water Deliveries to Everglades National Park: Central and southern Florida Project For Flood Control and Other Purposes. Part I. Agricultural and Conservation Areas Supplement 54, General Design Memorandum.
- Name/Creator
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United States, PALMM (Project)
- Date Issued
- 1992-06, 1992-06-01T04:00:00.000Z
- Format
- E-book
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/mca/FI05012801.pdf, http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/mca/FI05012801.jpg, http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI05012801.pdf, http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI05012801.jpg
- Title
- General design memorandum, conveyance canals to Everglades National Park and South Dade County: with detail design appendix on pumping station 331 and enlargement of reaches of levee 31(N) borrow canal, C-1, and C-103.
- Name/Creator
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United States, PALMM (Project)
- Abstract/Description
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"This report considers in general and detail design memorandum scope the authorized plan of improvement of the conveyance canals to provide supplemental water demands projected to the year 2025 to both the Everglades National Park and urban and agricultural users of South Dade County. It is submitted for the purposes outlined in paragraph 4, ER 1110-2-1150 dated October 1971"--P. 2 of main sequence.
- Date Issued
- 1973-06-27, 1973-06-27T04:00:00.000Z
- Format
- E-book
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI05122102.pdf, http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI05122102.jpg
- Title
- Wildlife reconnaissance: Everglades National Park project.
- Name/Creator
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Beard, Daniel B., United States
- Abstract/Description
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Practically without exception, areas that have been turned over to the Service as national parks have been of superlative value with existing features so outstanding that if the Service were able to merely retain the status quo, the job was a success. This will not be true of the Everglades National park. The reasons for even considering the lower tip of Florida as a national park are 90 percent biological ones, and hence highly perishable. Primitive conditions have been changed by the hand...
Show morePractically without exception, areas that have been turned over to the Service as national parks have been of superlative value with existing features so outstanding that if the Service were able to merely retain the status quo, the job was a success. This will not be true of the Everglades National park. The reasons for even considering the lower tip of Florida as a national park are 90 percent biological ones, and hence highly perishable. Primitive conditions have been changed by the hand of man, abundant wildlife resources exploited, woodland and prairie burned and reburned, water levels altered, and all the attendant, less obvious ecological conditions disturbed.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1938, 1938-01-01T05:00:00.000Z
- Format
- E-book
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI05022504.pdf, http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI05022504.jpg
- Title
- Success in the Making: An Integrated Plan for South Florida Ecosystem Restoration and Sustainability.
- Name/Creator
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Working Group of the South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Task Force (U.S.), United States, PALMM (Project)
- Abstract/Description
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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., Abnormally high...
Show moreWater 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., Abnormally high discharge of stormwater into estuaries and coastal waters has severely degraded aquatic habitats that support fish, birds and other species. Groundwater is threatened by saltwater intrusion and other marine-induced pollutants. The South Florida Ecosystem Restoration project consists of nearly 200 environmental restoration, growth management, agricultural, and urban revitalization projects, programs, and initiatives that are designed to make South Florida more sustainable in the future.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1998-04, 1998-04-01T05:00:00.000Z
- Format
- E-book
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI05030701.pdf, http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI05030701.jpg
- Title
- Water Preserve Areas: Defining Biological Functions and Spatial Extent: a Workshop Held September 19-20, 1996: Workshop Report.
- Name/Creator
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Water Preserve Areas Workshop (1996 : West Palm Beach, Fla.), Everglades Ecosystem Restoration Campaign, South Florida Water Management District (Fla.), United States, PALMM ...
Show moreWater Preserve Areas Workshop (1996 : West Palm Beach, Fla.), Everglades Ecosystem Restoration Campaign, South Florida Water Management District (Fla.), United States, PALMM (Project)
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The National Audubon Society, the South Florida Water Management District and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sponsored this scientific conceptual design workshop for the eastern Everglades Water Preserve Areas (WPAs). The objectives of this workshop were: to characterize and evaluate the ecological functions and biological resources in the wetlands east of the Everglades levee; to develop recommendations regarding conservation and potential restoration of these functions and...
Show moreThe National Audubon Society, the South Florida Water Management District and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sponsored this scientific conceptual design workshop for the eastern Everglades Water Preserve Areas (WPAs). The objectives of this workshop were: to characterize and evaluate the ecological functions and biological resources in the wetlands east of the Everglades levee; to develop recommendations regarding conservation and potential restoration of these functions and resources; and to develop strategies for protecting the Everglades using WPAs and buffer wetlands, including evaluating the spatial extent needed for the buffer.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1997-02, 1997-02-01T05:00:00.000Z
- Format
- E-book
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI05030402.pdf, http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI05030402.jpg
- Title
- Isle au Haut Principles: Ecosystem Management and the Case of South Florida.
- Name/Creator
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U.S. National Committee for Man and the Biosphere, United States, PALMM (Project)
- Abstract/Description
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The U.S. Man and the Biosphere Program is conducting a 5-year interdisciplinary study on ecosystem management for sustainability. In June 1994 at Isle au Haut, Maine, a charette was convened to apply these concepts to South Florida as a case study. The charette concluded that what is being done now for Everglades restoration will not achieve ecological sustainability. A sustainable South Florida environment is achievable only through utilizing ecosystem management principles that recognize...
Show moreThe U.S. Man and the Biosphere Program is conducting a 5-year interdisciplinary study on ecosystem management for sustainability. In June 1994 at Isle au Haut, Maine, a charette was convened to apply these concepts to South Florida as a case study. The charette concluded that what is being done now for Everglades restoration will not achieve ecological sustainability. A sustainable South Florida environment is achievable only through utilizing ecosystem management principles that recognize the interdependency of humans and their environment.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1994-09, 1994-09-01T04:00:00.000Z
- Format
- E-book
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI05031002.pdf, http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI05031002.jpg
- Title
- Everglades Wildguide.
- Name/Creator
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George, Jean Craighead, Fraser, Betty., United States, PALMM (Project)
- Abstract/Description
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This handbook describes the various components of the ecology of Everglades National Park in southern Florida. It covers the geology and topography of the Everglades, the various plant and animal communities living there, specific species, and the native Americans that have lived in the Everglades long before it was discovered by Europeans. The book includes a glossary plus animal and bird checklists.
- Date Issued
- 1972, 1972-01-01T05:00:00.000Z
- Format
- E-book
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI05050901.pdf, http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI05050901.jpg
- Title
- Chemical and biological quality of water in part of the Everglades, southeastern Florida.
- Name/Creator
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Waller, Bradley G., Earle, J. E. (James E.), Geological Survey (U.S.), United States, PALMM (Project)
- Abstract/Description
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"The quality of surface water in the agricultural area between Lake Okeechobee and the water conservation areas is markedly different from that of other surface water in southeastern Florida. Man has engaged in cultural activities, both agricultural and urban, which have affected the water quality in the northern and eastern segments of the area of investigation. The quality of the water improves, however, as it flows to the south and east because there is minimal input from man's activities...
Show more"The quality of surface water in the agricultural area between Lake Okeechobee and the water conservation areas is markedly different from that of other surface water in southeastern Florida. Man has engaged in cultural activities, both agricultural and urban, which have affected the water quality in the northern and eastern segments of the area of investigation. The quality of the water improves, however, as it flows to the south and east because there is minimal input from man's activities and many of the constituents are assimilated by plants, sorbed on organic material and clay in the bottom sediments, and entrapped within the sediments. Because of these processes, the water entering Everglades National Park is of better quality than that entering the conservation areas in the north"--P. 8.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1975, 1975-01-01T05:00:00.000Z
- Format
- E-book
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI06010319.pdf, http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI06010319.jpg
- Title
- South Florida ecological study. Appendix G, Part 1. Recent and long-term vegetation changes and patterns in South Florida. Preliminary report.
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Alexander, Taylor R. (Taylor Richard), Crook, Alan G., United States, University of Miami
- Abstract/Description
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Vegetational change, or plant succession, is described for southern Florida. Several significant shifts in species composition within communities, as well as the replacement of communities, are recognized. These are documented for a 16 to 30-year period and include a landward increase of mangrove forests, loss of coastal hardwood hammocks, both gain and loss of everglade tree islands, replacement of sawgrass by shrubs, pine and hardwood invasion of cypress, and pineland succession to hammock....
Show moreVegetational change, or plant succession, is described for southern Florida. Several significant shifts in species composition within communities, as well as the replacement of communities, are recognized. These are documented for a 16 to 30-year period and include a landward increase of mangrove forests, loss of coastal hardwood hammocks, both gain and loss of everglade tree islands, replacement of sawgrass by shrubs, pine and hardwood invasion of cypress, and pineland succession to hammock. The specific impact of farming, canals, roads, and exotic plants are also covered. These observations were made during photographic and on-site analysis of one-hundred-mile-square quadrants.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1973-05, 1973-05-01T04:00:00.000Z
- Format
- E-book
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI05032503.pdf, http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI05032503.jpg