The Everglades Handbook: Understanding the Ecosystem, Second Edition
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Book Overview
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
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1566706149
ISBN13:9781566706148
Release Date:July 2004
Publisher:CRC Press
Length:344 Pages
Weight:1.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"
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Essential book to understanding Everglades
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 14 years ago
Excellent book, readable for both Environmental text or average person wanting to understand a unique ecosystem that is the Everglades. The book starts out with a quote that reads "In the end, we conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand. We understand only what we are taught." Reading this book will fill in the missing pieces of understanding needed to appreciate...and thus love....the Everglades.
Essential resource
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 14 years ago
Having enjoyed the prior edition of this book, I was delighted to receive the Third Edition which is even better with marvellous photos and graphics. This is essential reading for anybody trying to understand the challenges we face in restoring this unique ecosystem. The text is well writtten and reflects the author's scientific studies as well as his passion for the River of Grass.It is also an excellent source of information about the fauna and flora of the Everglades. it is delightful to browse through prior to a trip to Florida.
Satisfactory
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
I hae been reading several pages in this book so far for my enviromental science class. I have found the pages very helpful in understanding the Everglades enviroment.
A Wonderful Guide to Understanding the Everglades
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
As an environmental consultant, I found the first edition of The Everglades Handbook to be very useful, and the second edition even better! There are new chapters and very important new information, such as the new chapters on the Big Cypress Swamp, Lake Okeechobee, and "Synthesis" with its diagrams of succession and food chains, and the updated final chapter with details of human history in South Florida. I especially looked forward to the updated information on the Everglades restoration - it was excellent. The new edition is well worth the price (I heard that CRC Press reduced the price by 10%!). I can't recommend this book more highly for those people wanting to become familiar with how the Everglades works as an ecosystem.
Everglades Hanbook will enrich your visit
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
Probably the most useful and interesting single book on the Everglades. If you're on a budget, the older edition contains much of the same information at a fraction of the cost.
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