عنوان

The Everglades handbook :

(Number (ISBN

0203501292

(Number (ISBN

6610236909

(Number (ISBN

9780203501290

(Number (ISBN

9786610236909

Erroneous ISBN

1566706149

Erroneous ISBN

9781566706148

Number

b756915

Title Proper

The Everglades handbook :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

understanding the ecosystem /

First Statement of Responsibility

Thomas E. Lodge.

Edition Statement

2nd ed.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Boca Raton, Fla. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

CRC Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2005.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xxxiv, 302 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations (some color), maps (some color)

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 255-287).

Text of Note

The Everglades in space and time -- An ecosystem overview -- Freshwater marshes: water, weather, and fire -- Tree islands -- Tropical hardwood hammocks -- Pinelands -- The big cypress swamp -- Mangrove swamps -- Coastal lowland vegetation ... and hurricanes! -- Coastal estuarine and marine waters -- Lake Okeechobee and the Everglades headwaters -- Origins of the flora and fauna -- Invertebrates -- Freshwater fishes -- Marine and estuarine fishes -- Amphibians -- Reptiles -- Mammals -- Birds -- Synthesis -- ecological relationships and processes in the Everglades region -- Man and the Everglades.

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Text of Note

The second edition of a bestseller, The Everglades Handbook: Understanding the Ecosystem continues to provide a wealth of information on the entire ecosystem of the Everglades. Offering the essentials of what the ecosystem is and how it works, the Handbook benefits those addressing issues such as Everglades restoration, water management, wildlife management, and water quality problems in urban and agricultural planning. A new synthesis chapter which diagrams ecological succession and food websAdditional chapter on Big Cypress Swamp New section on Lake Okeechobee and its headwaters What's new in the Second Edition: With an emphasis on natural history, the text is unified around themes of biogeography and ecosystem functions of the plant and animal communities. It presents current and historical geology, discussions of human impacts, ecosystem degradation, and planned restoration, and covers the socioeconomic aspects of the Everglades ecosystem.

Title

Everglades handbook.

International Standard Book Number

1566706149

Ecosystem management-- Florida-- Everglades.

Swamp animals-- Florida-- Everglades.

Swamp ecology-- Florida-- Everglades.

Swamp plants-- Florida-- Everglades.

Ecosystem management.

Swamp animals.

Swamp ecology.

Swamp plants.

Everglades (Fla.)

Florida, Everglades.

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7

NAT-- 010000

RNCB

SCI-- 039000

TEC-- 010030

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Lodge, Thomas E.,1943-

Date of Transaction

20201204171110.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

pn

Electronic name

[Book]

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