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Last updated: January 15, 2013
South Florida Restoration Science Forum

Landscape Synthesis and Ecological Modeling

How can the ecological responses to different management alternatives be predicted in the landscape?

Poster presented May 1999, at the South Florida Restoration Science Forum

Poster presented by: Dr. H. Carl Fitz, Dr. Fred H. Sklar, Dr. Yegang Wu, SFWMD

Part 1: Everglades Landscape Model (ELM)

Predicting ecological responses to water & nutrient management

photo of canal and station photo of vegetation
photo of scientist in lab photo of pipe

ELM Hydrology, Biology, Biogeochemistry
Collaborators
SFWMD:
H. Carl Fitz
Fred H. Sklar
Yegang Wu
Charles Cornwell
Univ. of Maryland:
A.A. Voinov
R. Costanza
T. Maxwell
Fl. Atlantic Univ.:
M. Evett
J. Wu

Computer Simulation
illustration of model structure Click on this image to view a larger version of the ecological interactions.

Of Ecological Processes

photo of mesocosm

In Complex System

aerial photo

At Regional Scale for...

image of southern Florida

Everglades Management

Everglades Management

South Florida Water Management District


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Next Next: ELM - what it covers, and a demonstration of a typical output


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