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Pollen and geochronological data from South Florida; Taylor Creek Site 2
Many recent changes in plant and animal communities of the Everglades have been attributed to human alteration of the environment, such as changes in the hydrologic regime and increased agricultural activity, but cause-and-effect relationships between environmental and biotic changes have not been documented scientifically. This report on pollen and geochronological evidence from cores collected a
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D. A. Willard, C. W. Holmes
Preliminary paleontologic report on cores 19A and 19B, from Russell Bank, Everglades National Park, Florida Bay
The fauna and flora preserved in two cores, 19A and 19B, from the south side of Russell Bank (N 25 03.831', W 80 37.486') in north-central Florida Bay, Everglades National Park, Florida, record a history of environmental change over the last century. The benthic foraminifera and molluscs indicate fluctuating salinities with increasing average salinity upcore in core 19B. Shifts from low salinity (
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G. L. Brewster-Wingard, S. E. Ishman, D. A. Willard, Lucy E. Edwards, C. W. Holmes
Predicting landslide vegetation in patches on landscape gradients in Puerto Rico
We explored the predictive value of common landscape characteristics for landslide vegetative stages in the Luquillo Experimental Forest of Puerto Rico using four different analyses. Maximum likelihood logistic regression showed that aspect, age, and substrate type could be used to predict vegetative structural stage. In addition it showed that the structural complexity of the vegetation was great
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R.W. Myster, J.R. Thomlinson, M. C. Larsen
How wide is a road? The association of roads and mass-wasting in a forested montane environment
A spatial data base of 1609 landslides was analysed using a geographic information system to determine landslide frequency in relation to highways. A 126 km long transportation network in a 201km2 area of humid-tropical, mountainous, forested terrain in Puerto Rico was used in conjunction with a series of 20 buffer (disturbance) zones varying from 5 to 400m in length, measured perpendicular to the
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M. C. Larsen, J.E. Parks
Potentiometric surface of the upper Floridan Aquifer in the St. Johns River Water Management District and vicinity, Florida, May 1997
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Nicasio Sepúlveda
A GIS Interface for Environmental System Analysis: Application to the South Florida Ecosystem
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Surface salinity of Florida Bay
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R. B. Halley, Dewitt Smith, M. E. Hansen
Analysis of tests of subsurface injection, storage, and recovery of freshwater in the lower Floridan aquifer, Okeechobee County, Florida
A series of freshwater subsurface injection, storage, and recovery tests were conducted at an injection-well site near Lake Okeechobee in Okeechobee County, Florida, to assess the recoverability of injected canal water from the Lower Floridan aquifer. At the study site, the Lower Floridan aquifer is characterized as having four local, relatively independent, high-permeability flow zones (389 to 39
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Vicente Quinones-Aponte, Kevin Kotun, J. F. Whitley
South Florida Ecosystem Program; gaging flows in northeastern Florida Bay
IntroductionThe South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Program is an intergovernmental effort, involving a number of agencies, to reestablish and maintain the ecosystem of south Florida. One element of the restoration effort is the development of a firm scientific basis for resource decision making. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), one of the agencies, provides scientific information as part of the
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Eduardo Patino
Comparison of the South Florida natural system model with pre-canal Everglades hydrology estimated from historical sources
Preservation and restoration of the remaining Everglades ecosystem is focussed on two aspects: improving upstream water quality and improving 'hydropatterns' - the timing, depth and flow of surface water. Restoration of hydropatterns requires knowledge of the original pre-canal drainage conditions as well as an understanding of the soil, topo-graphic, and vegetation changes that have taken place s
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Christopher McVoy, Winifred A. Park, Jayantha Obeysekera
South Florida Ecosystem Program; methodology for the determination of nutrient loads from east coast canals to Biscayne Bay
A digital orthophoto quadrangle (DOQ) is a computer-generated image of an aerial photograph in which displacements caused by terrain relief and camera tilts have been removed. It combines the image characteristics of a photograph with the geometric qualities of a map.
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Arthur C. Lietz