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TREE ISLANDS OF THE GREATER EVERGLADES
July 14 & 15 1998
Florida Atlantic University, University Center
Boca Raton, Florida
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Organizers:
Arnold van der Valk, Florida Center for Environmental Studies • Fred Sklar, South Florida Water Management District
Wiley Kitchens, U.S. Geological Survey
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July 14, Live Oak Pavilion
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Topics |
Speakers |
| 8:00 |
Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Moderator: Fred Sklar |
To be announced |
| 8:30 |
Stratigraphy, origins, and succession of tree islands
on deep peats in the northern Everglades
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Patrick Gleason, Peter Stone and William Spackman |
| 9:00 |
Tree islands of the southern Everglades: their
geological and paleoecological characteristics
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Arthur D. Cohen, Peter Kremer and William Spackman |
| 9:30 |
Tree islands of the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge |
Laura Brandt, Jennifer Silveira and Wiley Kitchens |
| 10:00 |
Coffee Break |
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| 10:30 |
Tree island plant communities and water management
in the central Everglades
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Lorraine Heisler, Tim Towles, Laura Brandt and Robert Pace |
| 11:00 |
Vegetation changes on fixed tree islands over two decades |
Paul Wetzel, Daniel Mason, Dale Gawlik and A. G. van der Valk |
| 11:30 |
Hammock Forest Community Types of Everglades
National Park and Adjacent Areas
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Tom Armentano, David Jones and Mike Ross |
| 12:00 |
Lunch (included in registration fee)
Moderator: Wiley Kitchens |
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| 1:00 |
Feasibility of relating tree ring to Everglades hydrology |
William Connor |
| 1:30 |
5000 years of human ecology on Everglades tree islands |
Robert Carr |
| 2:00 |
Breeding birds on bayheads in the central Everglades:
who are the seed dispersers?
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Dale E. Gawlik, Peg Gronemeyer and Robert A. Powell |
| 2:30 |
Coffee Break |
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| 3:00 |
Small mammal population dynamics on tree islands |
Michael S. Gaines |
| 3:30 |
The tree island fauna of Everglades National Park |
Oron L. Bass, Walter E. Meshaka, William B. Robertson, Jr., and Ray W. Snow |
| 4:00 |
Evaluating changes in hydrology using tree island models |
Yegang Wu and Fred Sklar |
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July I5, Senate Chambers
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A technical session to discuss future research needs will be held from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.
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