Mapa de los Everglades - Imagen por satélite de la NASA.

Everglades es el nombre de una región del estado estadounidense de Florida y también es el nombre de una ciudad del Condado de Collier en el mismo estado.

Aspectos ecológicos

Los Everglades son una región pantanosa subtropical localizada en el sur de Florida, que tiene una gran relevancia ecológica.

El área es el hábitat de diversas especies nativas, y actualmente está protegida por el Parque Nacional de los Everglades.

Bibliografía

• Barnett, Cynthia (2007). Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S., University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0-472-11563-4
• Carter, W. Hodding (2004). Stolen Water: Saving the Everglades from its Friends, Foes, and Florida, Atria Books. ISBN 0-7434-7407-4
• Caulfield, Patricia (1970) Everglades, Sierra Club / Ballantine Books. ISBN 345023536395
• Douglas, Marjory S. (1947). The Everglades: River of Grass. R. Bemis Publishing. ISBN 0-912451-44-0
• Douglas, Marjory; Rothchild, John (1987). Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River. Pineapple Press. ISBN 0910923941
• George, Jean (1972). Everglades Wildguide. National Park Service. Gov. doc #I 29.62:Ev2
• Griffin, John (2002). Archeology of the Everglades. University Press of Florida. ISBN 0-8130-2558-3
• Grunwald, Michael (2006). The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-5107-5
• Hann, John (ed.) (1991). Missions to the Calusa. University Press of Florida. ISBN 0-8130-1966-4
• Jewell, Susan (1993). Exploring Wild South Florida: A Guide to Finding the Natural Areas and Wildlife of the Everglades and Florida Keys, Pineapple Press, Inc. ISBN 1-56164-023-9
• Lodge, Thomas E. (1994). The Everglades Handbook. Understanding the Ecosystem. CRC Press. ISBN 1-884015-06-9
• McCally, David (1999). The Everglades: An Environmental History. University Press of Florida. ISBN 0-8130-2302-5
• Ripple, Jeff (1992). Big Cypress Swamp and the Ten Thousand Islands: Eastern America's Last Great Wilderness, University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 0-87249-842-5
• Tebeau, Charlton (1968). Man in the Everglades: 2000 Years of Human History in the Everglades National Park. University of Miami Press.
• Toops, Connie (1998). The Florida Everglades. Voyageur Press. ISBN 0-89658-372-4
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and South Florida Water Management District (April 1999). "Summary", Central and Southern Florida Project Comprehensive Review Study.
• University of Florida Agricultural Experiment Station and United States Department of Agriculture Soil Conservation Service (March 1948). Bulletin 442: Soils, Geology, and Water Control in the Everglades Region.
• Whitney, Ellie et al., eds. (2004) Priceless Florida: Natural Ecosystems and Native Species. Pineapple Press, Inc. ISBN 978-1-56164-309-7

Enlaces externos

Geografía y ecología

• Overview of the Everglades' condition on its 50th anniversary, 1997.
• World Wide Fund for Nature - South Florida rocklands ecoregion
• Florida Everglades
• 'Judas snakes' plan to remove pythons from the Everglades
• Arthur R. Marshall National Wildlife Refuge (US Fish & Wildlife Service)
• Everglades Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area

Historia

• A History of the Everglades of Florida
• World Wide Fund for Nature - Everglades ecoregion Alligators and Litigators: A Recent History of Everglades Regulation and Litigation

Recuperación

• The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP)
• The Everglades Coalition - a group of organizations united to advocate for Everglades restoration
• South Florida Information Access (U.S. Geological Survey)
• Environment Florida - Founders of The "Save The Everglades" campaign
• ACCELER8 (Everglades Restoration)
• Friends of the Everglades
• South Florida Environmental Report (South Florida Water Management District and Florida DEP)
• Scientific American Magazine (May 2006) The End of the Everglades? Supreme court case jeopardizes 90 percent of U.S. wetland.

En los Medios

• Everglades Digital Library
• Water's Journey: Everglades - Comprehensive film and web documentary about the Florida Everglades
• The Everglades in the Time of Marjorie Stoneman Douglas Photo exhibit created by the State Archives of Florida
• Everglades images at bioimages.vanderbilt.edu (Slow modem version)

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