These models, developed for a variety of landscape units and their drivers, stressors, and endpoints, are used to formulate hypotheses to explain the current conditions. They are also used as the basis for structuring management scenarios and analyses to project the temporal and spatial magnitude ...
Marjory Stoneman Douglas, the first to defend the importance of preserving the Everglades, stated in her 1947 book, The Everglades: River of Grass, "There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly ...