Everglades research

FIGURE 3.18 Soil subsidence due to oxidation of organic matter. (Location Everglades Research and Education Center, University of Elorida, Belle Glade, EL.)... 

Spackman, W. Cohen, A. D. Given, P. H. Casagrande, D. J. "The Comparative Study of the Okefenokee Swamp and the Everglade s-Mangrove Swamp-Marsh Complex of Southern Florida, Field guidebook printed for Geol. Soc. Amer. Pre-convention field trip, 15-17 November 1974 (subsequently published by Coal Research Section, Pennsylvania State University, 1976), 403 pp. 

More research is needed on mercury removal technology. In the Florida Everglades, for example, using prototype wetlands of 1545 ha, removal of agricultural nutrients from stormwater reduced total mercury and methylmercury concentrations in water by as much as 70% in the first 2 years of operation moreover, total mercury concentrations in largemouth bass were about 0.1 mg Hg/kg FW muscle throughout the project site vs. 0.5 mg Hg/kg FW in adjacent areas (Miles and Fink 1998). 

Hines ME, Pelletier RE, Crill PM. 1993. Emissions of sulfur gases from marine and freshwater wetlands of the Florida Everglades Rates and extrapolation using remote sensing. Journal of Geophysical Research 98 8991-8999. 

Research in the Everglades and elsewhere has shown that uptake of mercury by fish can occur at low levels of mercury if proper biogeochemical conditions exist in soil and sediment. The total mercury content of soil and sediment is less important than the soil biogeochemical conditions controlling methyl mercury formation. 

Committee on Independent Scientific Review of Everglades Restoration Progress (CISRERP). 2006. Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades, National Research Council. National Academy of Sciences. Washington DC. 234 pp. 

CROGEE, 2003. Does the water flow influence Everglades landscape patterns. National Research Council Report, The National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC. 41 pp. 

Presents results from research studies conducted on the Florida Everglades and Louisiana s Mississippi River deltaic plain... 

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