Native vs Invasive Species
This tree forms tree islands in the Everglades and is culturally important to the Seminole Tribe
Cypress
What is mitigation?
Process of compensating for unavoidable environmental impacts by restoring, creating or preserving wetlands elsewhere.
The Everglades is often called this because of its slow-moving sheet flow.
River of Grass
This measurement estimates how much area a plant species covers.
Percent cover
This traditional material harvested from wetlands is used in the construction of chickees.
Cypress
This invasive vine smothers native vegetation and can climb over entire tree islands
Old world climbing fern
Which reservations currently contain mitigation areas?
Big Cypress, Lakeland and Brighton.
South Florida has two main seasons. What are they?
Wet and Dry season
This biodiversity metric accounts for both richness and eveness.
Simpson's Diversity Index
Tree islands historically provided this essential resource for tribal communities.
Dry ground for shelter and settlement.
This invasive Australian tree was introduced to dry up the Everglades and now can be found forming dense monocultures in the environment.
Melaleuca
This federal law requires wetland impacts to be avoided, minimized and mitigated.
The Clean Water Act (Section 404)
May to October
These three wetland indicator statuses are commonly used to classify vegetation in surveys.
OBL, FACW, FAC
When tribes lead restoration projects on their lands, they are exercising this sovereign right.
Tribal sovereignty.
This wetland indicator classification of plant species is those that are almost always found in wetlands under natural conditions. The probability of these species occurring in wetlands is estimated to be greater than 99%.
Obligate wetland species (OBL)
This type of mitigation restores natural water flow and improved hydroperiod.
Hydrologic restoration
Hydroperiod typically refers to this important wetland characteristic.
The time an area stays inundated with water.
This type of vegetation survey is used to cover large areas and tries to reveal the vegetation composition over a distance.
Transect
Restoring wetlands improves water quality by filtering this.
Nutrients and/or pollutants.
This native grass dominates much of the historic Everglades "River of grass"
Sawgrass
Monitoring vegetation and its change over time helps with this.
This massive restoration project started in 2000 aims to restore natural water flow to the Everglades.
Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP)
Remote sensing tools like LiDAR help measure forest features like what.
Canopy height
Healthy wetlands help protect communities from what natural hazard.
Floods or storm surge.