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  • Essay / The Everglades: Florida's uniquely changing landscape

    The Everglades is a diverse ecosystem located in South Florida, but urbanization has created a tremendous impact that has altered the physical landscape of the region, creating thus a symbiotic environment between humans. and nature. Based on geographic research, the original Everglades spanned an area of ​​approximately 12,000 km2, and now, due to urbanization and agricultural growth in this subregion, the area of ​​the Everglades has been condensed to half its original size (Willard et al 1-2). ). The Everglades is actually a subregion of the southern coastal region of the United States. It is made up of a unique climate, divided into sub-provinces that create a diverse palette of environments for wildlife to thrive, but the impact of human modifications over a period of decades has significantly affected animal populations and altered the functionality and physical landscape of its extent. Despite differences in urbanization and wildlife, major cities and the Everglades ecosystem thrive and coalesce to form the diverse and changing landscape of the modern Everglades. The Everglades may also be known as the River of Grass due to its 80.5 kilometers (50 miles) length. ) wide in circumference and 161 kilometers (100 miles) in length, with the source of its fresh water coming from Lake Okeechobee just to the north (Tramontana and Johnson 1-2). The Everglades then continues to flow through the southernmost sandbars, mangrove islands, and the Florida Keys before emptying into Florida Bay. This path creates a mix of salt, brackish, and fresh waterways that make up the marshes and swamps of this unique environment (Tramontana and Johnson 1-2). Transitions between wet and dry climates are the only seasonal changes... middle of paper ......Everglades National Park - Alligators, Wildlife and More - A Fantastic Day Trip from Orlando! July 15, 2011. Visit to the Everglades. “Historic Everglades.” Everglades Foundation. Np, and Web. March 21, 2014. .Tramontana, Eileen and Cindy Johnson Oxford Rhyming Dictionary. 2007. “Everglades.” Encyclopedia.com. HighBeam Research, 2003. Web. March 22, 2014. Walker, Robert and William Solecki. “Theorizing land cover and land use change: the case of the Florida Everglades and its degradation.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 94.2 (2004): 311-28. JSTOR. Internet. March 20, 2014. Willard, Debra A., Christopher E. Bernhardt, Charles W. Holmes, Bryan Landacre and Marci Marot. “Everglades Tree Island Response to Environmental Change.” Ecological Monographs 76.4 (2006): 565-83. JSTOR. Internet. March 21. 2014.