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The Everglades handbook : understanding the ecosystem /
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Formato: | Libro |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Boca Raton, FL :
CRC Press/Taylor & Francis,
c2010.
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Edición: | Third edition. |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- An ecosystem overview
- what is (or are?) the Everglades?
- The Everglades in space and time
- Freshwater marshes
- Tree islands
- Tropical hardwood hammocks
- Pinelands
- The Big Cypress Swamp
- Mangrove swamps
- Coastal lowland vegetation... and hurricanes!
- Estuarine and coastal marine waters
- Lake Okeechobee and the Everglades headwaters
- Peripheral ecosystems of the Everglades
- 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.