The Coastal Everglades

The Dynamics of Social-Ecological Transformation in the South Florida Landscape

Edited by Daniel L. Childers, Evelyn Gaiser, and Laura A. Ogden

Long-Term Ecological Research Network Series

Includes nine broadly-focused chapters that integrate major findings of coastal ecology and environmental restoration from a social-ecological perspective
Synthesizes nearly 20 years of collaborative, interdisciplinary research on the Florida Coastal Everglades and the south Florida Landscape
Presents a rich collection of scientifically- and practically-applicable coastal research in the context of environmental management and restoration

The Coastal Everglades

The Dynamics of Social-Ecological Transformation in the South Florida Landscape

Edited by Daniel L. Childers, Evelyn Gaiser, and Laura A. Ogden

Long-Term Ecological Research Network Series

Description

The Coastal Everglades presents a broad overview and synthesis of research on the coastal Everglades, a region that includes Everglades National Park, adjacent managed wetlands, and agricultural and urbanizing communities. Contributors for this volume are all collaborators on the Florida Coastal Everglades Long-Term Ecological Research Program (FCE LTER). The FCE LTER began in 2000 with a focus on understanding key ecosystem processes in the coastal Everglades, while also developing a platform for and linkages to related work conducted by an active and diverse Everglades research community. The program is based at Florida International University in Miami, but includes scientists and students from numerous other universities as well as staff scientists at key resource management agencies, including Everglades National Park and the South Florida Water Management District.

Though the Everglades landscape spans nearly a third of the State of Florida, the focus on the coastal Everglades has allowed the contributors to examine key questions in social-ecological science in the context of ongoing restoration initiatives. As this book demonstrates, the long-term research of the FCE LTER has facilitated a better understanding of the roles of sea level rise, water management practices, urban and agricultural development, and other disturbances, such as fires and storms, on the past and future dynamics of this unique coastal environment. By comparing properties of the Everglades with other subtropical and tropical wetlands, the book challenges ideas of novelty while revealing properties of ecosystems at the ends of gradients that are often ignored. It also provides insights from, and encouragement for, long-term collaborative studies that inform resource management in similarly threatened coastal wetland landscapes.

The Coastal Everglades

The Dynamics of Social-Ecological Transformation in the South Florida Landscape

Edited by Daniel L. Childers, Evelyn Gaiser, and Laura A. Ogden

Long-Term Ecological Research Network Series

Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Everglades as Icon
Chapter 3: Water, Sustainability, and Survival
Chapter 4: Ecosystem Fragmentation and Connectivity-Legacies and Future Implications of a Restored Everglades
Chapter 5: The Life of P: A Biogeochemical and Socio-Political Challenge in the Everglades
Chapter 6: Carbon Cycles in the Florida Coastal Everglades Social-Ecological System Across Scales
Chapter 7: Exogenous Drivers: What has Disturbance Taught Us?
Chapter 8: Back to the Future: Rebuilding the Everglades
Chapter 9: Re-imagining Ecology through an Everglades Lens
Index

The Coastal Everglades

The Dynamics of Social-Ecological Transformation in the South Florida Landscape

Edited by Daniel L. Childers, Evelyn Gaiser, and Laura A. Ogden

Long-Term Ecological Research Network Series

Author Information

Edited by Daniel L. Childers, Professor, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Edited by Evelyn Gaiser, Endowed George Barley Eminent Scholars Chair and Professor, Florida International University, and Edited by Laura A. Ogden, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College

Dan Childers is a Professor in the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University. He is the Director of the Central Arizona-Phoenix LTER Program and was the co-Director of the Urban Sustainability Research Coordination Network. Evelyn Gaiser is a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and Southeast Environmental Research Center at Florida International University. Laura Ogden is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth.

Contributors:

Bill Anderson
Jordan Barr
James Beerens
Ross Boucek
Joseph N. Boyer
Laura Brandt
Josh Breithaupt
Henry Briceño
Mike Bush
Edward Castañeda-Moya
Jessica Cattelino
Randolph Chambers
Sean Charles
Daniel L. Childers
Ligia Collado-Vides
Mark Cook
Carlos Coronado
Stephen E. Davis III
Tom Dreschel
Carl Fitz
James Fourqurean
Tom Frankovich
Jose D. Fuentes
Evelyn Gaiser
Michael Heithaus
Charles Hopkinson
Rudolf Jaffé
Gregory R. Koch
John Kominoski
Laurel Larsen
Christopher Madden
Sparkle Malone
Philip Matich
Agnes McLean
Christopher McVoy
Gregory B. Noe
Steve Oberbauer
Laura Ogden
Jeff Onsted
René Price
Jennifer Rehage
Jennifer Richards
Victor Rivera-Monroy
Adam Rosenblatt
Rinku Roy Chowdhury
Dave Rudnick
Jay Sah
Amartya Saha
Katrina Schwartz
Nick Schulte
Len Scinto
Fred Sklar
Joseph Donny Smoak
Greg Starr
Joel Trexler
Tiffany Troxler
Kevin Whelan
Walter Wilcox
Jeffrey R. Wozniak