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Characteristics Of Surface-Water Flows In The Ridge And Slough Landscape Of Everglades National Park: Implications For Particulate Transport, Lynn Leonard, Alexander L. Croft, Dan Childers, Sherry Mitchell-Bruker, Helena Solo-Gabriele, Michael S. Ross
Characteristics Of Surface-Water Flows In The Ridge And Slough Landscape Of Everglades National Park: Implications For Particulate Transport, Lynn Leonard, Alexander L. Croft, Dan Childers, Sherry Mitchell-Bruker, Helena Solo-Gabriele, Michael S. Ross
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Over the last one hundred years, compartmentalization and water management activities have reduced water flow to the ridge and slough landscape of the Everglades. As a result, the once corrugated landscape has become topographically and vegetationally uniform. The focus of this study was to quantify variation in surface flow in the ridge and slough landscape and to relate flow conditions to particulate transport and deposition. Over the 2002–2003 and 2003–2004 wet seasons, surface velocities and particulate accumulation were measured in upper Shark River Slough in Everglades National Park. Landscape characteristics such as elevation, plant density and biomass also were examined …