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Forested wetlands in urbanizing landscapes
| Author: |
Brown, Mark T. |
| Date: |
1989 |
| Periodical: |
Gen. Tech. Rep. Se-50. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southeastern Forest Experiment Station |
| Abstract: |
While the direct conversion of wetlands to urban and agricultural uses in Florida has been reduced in the past decade, there has been a noticeable decline in quality of wetlands throughout areas of rapid urbanization. This is attributed to changes in environmental conditions like hydrologic and nutrient regimes resulting from development of the surrounding landscape. A classification of wetlands using landscape position, nutrient access, and hydrologic regime is introduced and related to sensitivity to change. Successional phasing and timing may be modified as the result of changes in hydrologic and nutrient regimes. Suggestions are given for landscape scale management that might reverse current trends of wetland loss resulting from cumulative alteration of the landscape. |
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