Biscayne Bay:
How can the quantity, timing, and quality of freshwater inflow be improved to sustain healthy ecosystems in all parts of this bay that stretches from urban areas to wilderness?

Poster presented May 1999, at the South Florida Restoration Science Forum

Poster presented by: Rick Alleman, SFWMD; Dr. Susan Markley, Dade DERM; Dr. Scott Ishman and Dr. Christian Langevin, USGS

Part 1: Biscayne Bay - A High Value System
Beautiful and Sustaining
People have been settling adjacent to Biscayne Bay for hundreds of years for sustenance and enjoyment of its beauty
		Productivity and the beauty of Biscayne Bay depends on complex interactions of water quality and biological communities.
Science for Understanding
(Click the image for large viewing)		Resource managers depend on the results of research and monitoring to understand what Biscayne Bay is like today, and was historically. Improvements must be based on fact-based comparisons.