Excerpt from An Ecological Characterization of the Lower Everglades, Florida Bay, and the Florida Keys The hydrologic boundaries of watersheds form distinct, though somewhat amorphous membranes across which considerable energy and materials flow. Within these bound aries, various forms of energy and matter are constantly being tapped, transformed, and modified to yield a wide range of products including fish and wildlife as well as indus trial and agricultural goods. These processes and pathways of production and consumption within the watershed are collectively responsible for what we call watershed metabolism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Providing a synthesis of basic and applied research, The Everglades, Florida Bay, and Coral Reefs of the Florida Keys: An Ecosystem Sourcebook takes an encyclopedic look at how to study and manage ecosystems connected by surface and subsurface water movements. The book examines the South Florida hydroscape, a series of ecosystems linked by hydrolog