Ecohydrology of Patterned Peatlands and Karst Landscapes
Our work in the Everglades, and recent proposals to extend our focus to the Big Cypress National Preserve, is fundamentally focused on autogenic patterned landscapes. That is, these sites exhibit surface topography and spatial patch arrangements that can only be understood as emerging from local and spatial ecological interactions. Restoration requires that we understand the underlying processes and appropriately diagnose when those feedbacks are in decline. More broadly, our appreciation for earth surface processes as fundamentally including biota as agents, and our improved understanding of how regime shifts occur in a spatial setting benefit from insights being gleaned from the remarkable study sites. I'll be updating this site extensively in the near future.
