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Rehabilitation of impounded estuarine wetlands by hydrologic reconnection to the Indian River Lagoon, Florida (USA)

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Date Issued:
1997
Title: Rehabilitation of impounded estuarine wetlands by hydrologic reconnection to the Indian River Lagoon, Florida (USA).
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Name(s): Brockmeyer, R. E., Jr., creator
Rey, J. R., creator
Virnstein, Robert W., creator
Gilmore, R. G., creator
Earnest, L., creator
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Article
Issuance: single unit
Date Issued: 1997
Publisher: Springer
Extent: 18 p.
Physical Description: pdf
Language(s): English
Identifier: 3318887 (digitool), FADT3318887 (IID), fau:5998 (fedora), 10.1007/BF01876231 (doi)
Note(s): Salt marshes of the Indian River Lagoon, Florida (USA) were once prolific producers of mosquitoes. Mosquitoes lay their eggs on the infrequently-flooded high marsh surface when the soil surface is exposed. The eggs hatch when the high marsh is flooded by the infrequent high tides or summer rains. To control mosquito production, most of the salt marshes (over 16.200 ha) were impounded by the early 1970s. Flooding, usually by pumping water from the Lagoon, effectively controlled mosquitoes.
This manuscript is an author version with the final publication available at http://www.springerlink.com and may be cited as: Brockmeyer, R. E., Jr., Rey, J. R., Virnstein, R. W., Gilmore, R. G., & Earnest, L. (1997). Rehabilitation of impounded estuarine wetlands by hydrologic reconnection to the Indian River Lagoon, Florida (USA). Wetlands Ecology and Management, 4(2), 93-109. doi:10.1007/BF01876231
Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution #1152.
Subject(s): Salt marshes --Florida
Salt marsh ecology --Florida
Mosquitoes --Control --Florida
Wetlands--Florida
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3318887
Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01876231
Restrictions on Access: ©1997 SPB Academic Publishing
Host Institution: FAU