RESOURCES

Resources for All Groups

• Climate Sensitivity Runs (DRAFT)  by the South Florida Water Management District. 

• Vargas, J.C., Flaxman, and B. Fradkin (2014). Landscape Conservation and Climate Change Scenarios for the State of Florida: A Decision Support System for Strategic Conservation. Summary for Decision Makers. GeoAdaptive LLC, Boston, MA and Geodesign Technologies Inc., San Francisco CA. 
• USACE (2014). Procedures to Evaluate Sea Level Change: Impacts, Responses, and Adaptation - DRAFT . Department of the Army Engineering Circular No. ER 1100-2-XX, 31 March 2014.

Session A: Management framework for landscape systems

• Pearlstine, L. G., Pearlstine, E. V., & Aumen, N. G. (2010). A review of the ecological consequences and management implications of climate change for the Everglades .  Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 29(4), 1510-1526.

• Hobbs, R. J., Higgs, E., & Harris, J. A. (2009). Novel ecosystems: implications for conservation and restoration .  Trends in ecology & evolution, 24(11), 599-605.

• Wiens, J. A. (2013). Is landscape sustainability a useful concept in a changing world?   Landscape ecology, 28(6), 1047-1052.

• Nungesser, M., Saunders, C., Coronado-Molina, C., Obeysekera, J., Johnson, J., McVoy, C., & Benscoter, B. (2014). Potential effects of climate change on Florida’s Everglades peatlands.

• Hydrographs of Normalized Duration Curves
  

Session B: Shifts and challenges to vegetative communities

• van der Valk, A., Volin, J. A. & Wetzel, P. R. Predicted changes in interannual water-level fluctuations due to climate change and its implications for the vegetation of the Florida Everglades.  Under review in "Environmental Management."

• Bedford, B., Labisky, R., van der Valk, A., & Volin, J. (2012) Ecological effects of extreme hydrological events on the Greater Everglades. Independent Scientific Review Panel Report to RECOVER.

• David, P. G. (1996) Changes in plant communities relative to hydrologic conditions in the Florida Everglades. Wetlands 16:15-23. (Contact group leader of this resource)

• Wetzel, P. R., Harvey, J. W., Ross,  M. S., Rivero, R. G., Lodge, T. E., Engel,  V., & Miralles-Wilhelm, F. (2011) Report of the landscape and habitat subgroup. (p. 119-181) In SERES Review of Everglades Science, Tools and Needs related to key science management questions. 

• Zweig, C. L., & Kitchens, W. M. (2008). Effects of landscape gradients on wetland vegetation communities: information for large-scale restoration.  Wetlands ,   28 (4), 1086-1096. (Contact group leader of this resource)

Session C: Managing Wildlife for Sustainability in Changing Climate

• Pearlstine, L. G., Pearlstine, E. V., & Aumen, N. G. (2010).  A review of the ecological consequences and management implications of climate change for the Everglades .  Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 29(4), 1510-1526. 
• Catano, C. P., Romañach, S. S., Beerens, J. M., Pearlstine, L. G., Brandt, L. A., Hart, K. M., Mazzotti, F. J. & Trexler, J. C. (2014).   Using scenario planning to evaluate the impacts of climate change on wildlife populations and communities in the Florida Everglades.

Session D: Managing Water Quality and Quantity in the Northern Everglades

• Havens, K. E., & Steinman, A. D. (2013). Ecological Responses of a Large Shallow Lake (Okeechobee, Florida) to Climate Change and Potential Future Hydrologic Regimes .  Environmental management, 1-13.

• Morgan, T. (2009). Reviving the River of Grass . PowerPoint presented at the WRAC Issues Workshop. 

Session E: Managing the Everglades by Influencing Biogeochemical Processes

• Newman, S., Orem, W., Osborne, T. Z., & Reddy, K. R. (2013). Landscape Scale Response to Climate Change : A Biogeochemical Perspective. PowerPoint presented at FAU’s Predicting Ecological Changes in the Florida Everglades under a Future Climate Scenario Technical Meeting. 

• Mean annual hydroperiods based on climate change modelling   

• Reddy, K. R., DeLaune, R. D. & Craft, C. B. (2010). Nutrients in wetlands: Implications to water quality under changing climatic conditions. Final Report submitted to U. S. Environmental Protection Agency. EPA Contract No. EP-C-09-001. 

• Chambers, L.G., Davis, S.E., and T.G. Troxler.  in press. Sea level rise in the Everglades: plant-soil-microbial feedbacks in response to changing physical conditions. In: J.A. Entry, A.D. Gottlieb, K. Jayachandrahan and A. Ogram (eds.) Microbiology of the Everglades Ecosystem.  CRC Press, Boca Raton.

• McKee, K., K. Rogers, and N. Saintilan. 2012.  Responses of salt marsh and mangrove wetlands to changes in atmospheric CO2, climate, and sea level. pp 63-96, in: B.A. Middleton (ed.), Global Change and the Function and Distribution of Wetlands.  Society of Wetland Scientists.

• Pearlstine, L.G., E.V. Pearlstine and N.G. Aumen. 2010. A review of the ecological consequences and management implications of climate change for the Everglades . Journal of the North American Benthological Society 29: 1510-1526. 

• Smoak, J.M., J.L. Breithaupt, T.J. Smith and C.J. Sanders. 2013. Sediment accretion and organic carbon burial relative to sea-level rise and storm events in two mangrove forests in Everglades National Park . Catena 104: 58-66.

Session F: Water Management Response to Hydrology and Sea Level Rise 

• Parris, A., Bromirski, P., Burkett, V., Cayan, D., Culver, M., Hall, J., ... & Weiss, J. (2012). Global sea level rise scenarios for the United States National Climate Assessment .  NOAA Technical Report OAR CPO-1. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland.

• USACE (2013). Incorporating Sea-level Change Considerations in Civil Works Programs .  Department of the Army Engineering Circular No. ER 1100-2-8162, 31 December 2013 .

• Ammon, K., Reppen, D., & Trost, S. (2009). Climate change and water management in south Florida.

• Obeysekera, J., Park, J., Irizarry-Ortiz, M., Trimble, P., Barnes, J., VanArman, J., ... & Gadzinski, E. (2011). Past and projected trends in climate and sea level for south Florida .  Interdepartmental Climate Change Group. South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, Florida, Hydrologic and Environmental Systems Modeling Technical Report .

• Morgan, T. (2009). Reviving the River of Grass . PowerPoint presented at the WRAC Issues Workshop. 

Session G: Management Considerations for Coastal Systems

• Elizabeth McLeod et al. (2012) Integrating Climate and Ocean Change Vulnerability into Conservation Planning, Coastal Management , 40:6, 651-672, DOI: 10.1080/08920753.2012.728123
• Kourafalou et al. (2009) Evaluation of Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment products on South Florida nested simulations with the Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model Ocean Dynamics 59:47-66
• Lee et al. (2008) On water renewal and salinity variability in the northeast subregion of Florida Bay  Bulletin of Marine Science, 82(1): 83–105
• Wanless and Tagett (1989) Origin, Growth and Evolution Of Carbonate Mudbanks in Florida Bay , 44(1): 454-489, 1989
• Taylor and Purkis (2012) Evidence for the southward migration of mud banks in Florida Bay . Marine Geology 311-314 52–56
• Willard and Bernhardt (2011) Impacts of past climate and sea level change on Everglades wetlands: placing a century of anthropogenic change into a late-Holocene context. Climatic Change 107:59–80
• McKee et al. (2007) Caribbean mangroves adjust to rising sea level through biotic controls on change in soil elevation. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 16, 545–556.
• Rudnick et al. (2005).  A Conceptual Ecological Model of Florida Bay. Wetlands, 25(4):870-883.
• Keller BD, Causey BD (2005) Linkages between the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and the South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Initiative. Ocean Coast Manage 48:869-900
• Manzello DP, Enochs IC, Melo N, Gledhill DK, Johns EM (2012) Ocean acidification refugia of the Florida Reef Tract. PLoS ONE 7(7): e41715. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0041715
• Chollett I, Müller-Karger FE, Heron SF, Skirving W, Mumby PJ (2012) Seasonal and spatial heterogeneity of recent sea surface temperature trends in the Caribbean Sea and southeast Gulf of Mexico. Mar Pollut Bull 64:956-965
• Riegl BM, Purkis SJ, Al-Cibahy AS, Abdel-Moati MA, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2011) Present limits to heat-adaptability in corals and population-level responses to climate extremes. PLoS ONE 6:e24802.
• Ruzicka R, Colella M, Porter J, Morrison J, Kidney J, Brinkhuis V, Lunz K, Macaulay K, Bartlett L, Meyers M, Colee J (2013) Temporal changes in benthic assemblages on Florida Keys reefs 11 years after the 1997/1998 El Nino. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 489:125-141.

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