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Appendix E: Executive Summary: The Role of Flow in the Everglades Ridge and Slough Landscape
Pages 39-41

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... Appendix E Executive Summary - The Role of Flow in the Everglades Ridge and Slough Landscape 39
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... Drainage and compartmentalization efforts during the 20th century for flood control and water supply purposes interrupted this flow, as well as altering water levels, distribution, and seasonal timing. Water flows are closely linked to water levels, and their alterations have caused environmental damage.
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... Negative impacts of these landscape changes extend throughout the Everglades food web, including fish, which are important food for wading birds. In addition to altering flow patterns and wetland landscape pattems, barriers to flow serve as barriers to movement of aquatic animals.
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  • wading birds

  • everglades plants
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  • temporal trends

  • sediment transport
  • landscape changes
  • altering flow
  • extend throughout
  • hydrological events

  • thorough geomorphic
  • water depth
  • balance model
  • supports fewer
  • microhabitat differences

  • lower diversity
  • landscape increasingly
  • restoration plan
  • characteristic ridge
  • transport studies

  • seasonal timing
  • including fish
  • food web
  • underlying bedrock
  • vegetationally uniform


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