Across Trophic Level System Simulation (ATLSS) - Landscape/Vegetation

Proposals Work Plans Project Summaries Metadata Publications Related Links

Summary

The basic goal is to develop predictive vegetation succession models for targeted habitats, describing how they are affected by changes in hydrology and available nutrients. Disturbance regimes are the third major landscape driver coupled to succession, so fire scenarios will also be built into the models.

ATLSS : Alligators | Cape Sable Seaside Sparrows | Crayfish | Deer | Fish | Florida Panthers | Hydrology | Snail Kite | Landscape/Vegetation | Wading Birds

Note: PowerPoint® files (below) are available from the ATLSS website. If you have problems downloading these files, please e-mail Louis J. Gross at gross@tiem.utk.edu.

Proposals

• 2001 (Mangrove Modeling of Landscape, Stand-level, and Soil-Nutrient Processes for the ATLSS Program and Everglades Restoration)

Work Plans

• 2003 (Mangrove Modeling of Landscape, Stand-level, and Soil-Nutrient Processes for the Everglades Restoration Project)

Project Summaries

• 2001 (Developing an ATLSS/ELM Lower Trophic Level Model)
• 2002 (Developing an ATLSS/ELM Lower Trophic Level Model)
• 2002 (Mangrove Modeling of Landscape, Stand-Level, and Soil-Nutrient Processes for the ATLSS Program and Everglades Restoration)
• 2002 (Vegetative Community Succession Models for the Across Trophic Level System Simulation Program)
• 2003 (Vegetative Community Succession Models for the Across Trophic Level System Simulation Program)

Metadata

• ATLSS: Across-Trophic-Level System Simulation for the Freshwater Wetlands of the Everglades and Big Cypress Swamp (project metadata)
• Mangrove Modeling of Landscape, Stand-Level and Soil-Nutrient Processes for the ATLSS Program and Everglades Restoration Project (project metadata)

Publications

Abstracts

• Across-Trophic-Level System Simulation (ATLSS) Approach for Ecosystem Analysis of South Florida Wetlands
• Across-Trophic-Level System Simulation for the Freshwater Wetlands of the Everglades and Big Cypress Swamp
• ATLSS Vegetation Succession Model Project (from the GEER Conference, April 2003)
• Developing an ATLSS/ELM Lower Trophic Level Model (from the GEER Conference, December 2000)
• Development of Selected Model Components of an Across-Trophic-Level Systems Simulation for the Wetlands of South Florida: Landscape Structure
• Development of Selected Model Components of an Across-Tropic Level Systems Simulation (ATLSS) for Wetland Ecosystems of South Florida (from the GEER Conference, December 2000)
• SELVA-MANGRO--Integrated Landscape and Stand-Level Model of Mangrove Forest Response to Sea-Level Rise and Hydrologic Restoration of the Everglades (from the GEER Conference, April 2003)
• The Role of Aquatic Refuges in the Rockland Wetland Complex of South Florida in Relation to System Restoration (from the GEER Conference, December 2000)

Papers

• A simulation model for projecting changes in salinity concentrations and species dominance in the coastal margin habitats of the Everglades (available from the Science Direct Ecological Modelling website)
• Woody Debris in the Mangrove Forests of South Florida

Posters

• Everglades Landscape Model (ELM) (from the South Florida Restoration Science Forum, May 1999)
• How can we best describe, understand, and predict ecological changes at the landscape and regional levels? (from the South Florida Restoration Science Forum, May 1999)
• What are the predicted long-term transport, fate and effects? (from the South Florida Restoration Science Forum, May 1999)

Presentations

• The ATLSS Vegetative Succession Model (PowerPoint® file. Presentation from the Ecological Processes and Modeling Information Workshop, May 2002)

Related Links

• The ATLSS Habitat Type Density Analysis Maps (from the ATLSS website)