Assignment 1 Discussion-Biomes, Development, Pollution, and You human activity alters the Marsh ecosystem in the Everglades

The Everglades and Everglades National Park are part of a vast wetland system that historically extended over 200 miles from the Kissimmee chain of lakes south through Lake Okeechobee into the freshwater marshes of the Everglades and to the mangrove estuaries. The southern end includes the United States' only subtropical estuary, Florida Bay, and its associated mangrove estuaries, and the third largest coral reef in the world. On the west the system molds into the swamps of the Big Cypress (Robertson and Frederick, 1994). The uplands of the system include pinelands, hardwood forests, and herbaceous rocklands. The uplands contain a mixture of temperate and tropical...