The Everglades Handbook: Understanding the Ecosystem, Second Edition - Softcover

Críticas

"My voice has been heard through many decades in the efforts to preserve the historic flows of water to the ParkI hope this book will prove to be an important contribution to the understanding of the nature and beauty of the Everglades as well as to the many-faceted challenges of keeping the Everglades alive and well." Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890-1998), from the Introduction to the First Edition "Dr. Lodge manages to pack more information on a page than anyone else" -- Audubon of the Everglades (Palm Beach County) Everglades Kite newsletter "[The Everglades Handbook] is far and away the best guide now in print to Everglades issues -- authoritative, well illustrated, well indexed, and readable." -- Martha Musgrove, retired journalist and President, Decision Makers Forum "Numerous text improvements are directed toward the environmental community for understanding ecosystem restoration. For example, there is more geologic background, needed for underground "aquifer storage and recovery" (ASR) of surface water, which has become an important and controversial topic. Much of the consternation arises out of an inadequate understanding of the physical aspects of the process - where does the water go underground, what does it interact with, and what happens when we withdraw it? The revised first chapter sets the stage for this understanding. The final chapter contains updated information about other ongoing and planned restoration efforts." Thomas E. Lodge, from the Preface

Reseña del editor

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.

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.

What’s new in the Second Edition:

• Additional chapter on Big Cypress Swamp
• New section on Lake Okeechobee and its headwaters
• A new synthesis chapter which diagrams ecological succession and food webs