Florida Bay research programs : and their relation to the comprehensive Everglades restoration plan / Committee on Restoration of the Greater Everglades Ecosystem, Water Science and Technology Board, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Restoration of the Greater Everglades Ecosystem.

Conference Name:

Florida Bay and Adjacent Marine Systems Science Conference (2001 : Key Largo, Fla.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Program.

Restoration ecology--Environmental aspects--Florida--Florida Bay.

Restoration ecology.

Restoration ecology--Environmental aspects--Florida--Everglades.

Hydrology--Florida--Florida Bay.

Hydrology.

Water quality management--Florida--Florida Bay.

Water quality management.

Marine ecology--Florida--Florida Bay.

Marine ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (54 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This report is a product of the Committee on Restoration of the Greater Everglades Ecosystem (CROGEE), which provides consensus advice to the South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Task Force. The Task Force was established in 1993 and was codified in the 1996 Water Resources Development Act (WRDA); its responsibilities include the development of a comprehensive plan for restoring, preserving and protecting the South Florida ecosystem, and the coordination of related research. The CROGEE works under the auspices of the Water Science and Technology Board and the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology of the National Research Council. The CROGEE's mandate includes providing the Task Force not only with scientific overview and technical assessment of the restoration activities and plans, but also providing focused advice on technical topics of importance to the restoration efforts. One such topic was to examine "the linkage between the upstream components of the greater Everglades and adjacent coastal ecosystems." This report addresses this issue by breaking it down into three major questions: What is the present state of knowledge of Florida Bay ("the Bay") on scientific issues that relate to the success of the overall CERP? What are the potential long-term effects of Everglades restoration as currently designed on the nature and condition of the Bay? What are the critical science questions that should be answered early in the restoration process to design a system that benefits not only the terrestrial and freshwater aquatic Everglades but the Bay as well? This study was inspired in part by the 2001 Florida Bay and Adjacent Marine Systems Science Conference held on April 23-26, 2001 in Key Largo, Florida. An overlapping meeting of the CROGEE was held at the same location on April 26-28, 2001. The conference was organized by the Program Management Committee (PMC) of the Florida Bay and Adjacent Marine Systems Science Program. The PMC organized the conference around five questions suggested by the Florida Bay Science Oversight Panel. These questions related to circulation, salinity patterns, and outflows of the Bay; nutrients and the nutrient budget; onset, persistence and fate of planktonic algal blooms; temporal and spatial changes in seagrasses and the hardbottom community; and recruitment, growth and survivorship of higher trophic level species. Some of these issues are discussed in the present report. However, as noted earlier, this report focuses on the subset of questions that relate to linkages between the Bay and the upstream portion of the Everglades system that arose at the 2001 Florida Bay Conference.

Contents:

FLORIDA BAY RESEARCH PROGRAMS AND THEIR RELATION TO THE COMPREHENSIVE EVERGLADES RESTORATION PLAN

Copyright

Preface

Contents

Executive Summary

PURPOSE

DESCRIPTION OF THE BAY

POTENTIAL EFFECTS OF THE CERP ON FLORIDA BAY

FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

1 Introduction

THE PHYSICAL SYSTEM

NUTRIENTS IN THE BAY

LINKAGES WITH THE EVERGLADES

CURRENT RESEARCH AND OVERSIGHT

REPORT OBJECTIVE AND OVERVIEW

2 Potential Effect of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) on Florida Bay

FRESHWATER INFLOWS TO THE BAY

Taylor Slough and Craighead Basin

Shark River Slough

Groundwater

NUTRIENT FLUXES TO THE BAY

3 Research Needs

WATER BUDGET

DISSOLVED NUTRIENTS

HISTORICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE BAY

MODELING AND HYDRODYNAMICS

Models for Florida Bay

Linking Florida Bay and Everglades Models

OTHER INFLUENCES ON THE BAY

RESEARCH MANAGEMENT

4 Conclusions and Recommendations

References

Appendix A Acronym List

Appendix B Definitions of Model Runs of the South Florida Water Management Model (SFWMM) and Natural System Model (NSM)

Appendix C Biographical Sketches of Members of the Committee on Restoration of the Greater Everglades Ecosystem.

Notes:

"The Florida Bay and Adjacent Marine Systems Science Conference (Key Largo, April 2001) was a major stimulus for this Report."--P. 1.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 29-34).

ISBN:

0-309-18304-9

1-280-18341-1

9786610183418

0-309-56623-1

OCLC:

57000316