How will research on fishes and wading birds guide and evaluate Everglades restoration?

Part 1: Aquatic Animal Ecology Research Program

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

By: William F. Loftus and Dale E. Gawlik

Graphics showing the natural system model (left) and the managed system model (right) for the year 1985. Note: the hydroperiod color scale on these images represents the number of days in a year that an area is beneath water: red is 0 days and deep blue is 360 days. (Click on images for larger version.)