The Everglades Handbook: Understanding the Ecosystem, Second Edition | 
 enlarge | Author: Thomas E. Lodge
Publisher: CRC
Category: Book
List Price: $52.95
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 250777
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Pages: 336
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7 x 0.9
ISBN: 1566706149
Dewey Decimal Number: 577.680975939
EAN: 9781566706148
ASIN: 1566706149
Publication Date: July 26, 2004
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Product Description
The second edition of a bestseller, The Everglades Handbook: Understanding the Ecosystem continues to provide a wealth of information on the entire ecosystem of the Everglades. Offering the essentials of what the ecosystem is and how it works, the Handbook benefits those addressing issues such as Everglades restoration, water management, wildlife management, and water quality problems in urban and agricultural planning. With an emphasis on natural history, the text is unified around themes of biogeography and ecosystem functions of the plant and animal communities. It presents current and historical geology, discussions of human impacts, ecosystem degradation, and planned restoration, and covers the socioeconomic aspects of the Everglades ecosystem. What’s new in the Second Edition: Additional chapter on Big Cypress Swamp New section on Lake Okeechobee and its headwaters A new synthesis chapter which diagrams ecological succession and food webs
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 Satisfactory October 2, 2005
Cheryl Walker
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I hae been reading several pages in this book so far for my enviromental science class. I have found the pages very helpful in understanding the Everglades enviroment.
 A Wonderful Guide to Understanding the Everglades May 16, 2005
P. Gertenbach (Ft. Lauderdale, FL)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
As an environmental consultant, I found the first edition of The Everglades Handbook to be very useful, and the second edition even better! There are new chapters and very important new information, such as the new chapters on the Big Cypress Swamp, Lake Okeechobee, and "Synthesis" with its diagrams of succession and food chains, and the updated final chapter with details of human history in South Florida. I especially looked forward to the updated information on the Everglades restoration - it was excellent. The new edition is well worth the price (I heard that CRC Press reduced the price by 10%!). I can't recommend this book more highly for those people wanting to become familiar with how the Everglades works as an ecosystem.
Everglades Hanbook will enrich your visit March 23, 2005
William T. Pool (Anderson, SC)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Probably the most useful and interesting single book on the Everglades. If you're on a budget, the older edition contains much of the same information at a fraction of the cost.
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