Florida Coastal Areas
Mangroves: tropical trees or scrubs that have many prop roots.
Estuaries: a water passage where the tide meets a river current.
Lagoons: a shallow sound, channel, or pond near or connected to larger body of water

• FICUS: Florida Coastal Areas
• Florida Coastal Management Program  Working with local governments to
  protect valuable coastal resources.
• Florida Coastal Management Program

Mangroves

• Florida Mangroves
• Mangrove Forests
• Biosphere 2 Mangrove Ecosystem  Models the "neotropical, mangrove
  dominated estuary in SW Florida."
• FICUS: Florida Mangrove Swamps
• Mangrove Replenishment Initiative
• Mangrove Swamps
• Mangrove Forests   from the Florida Aquarium
• The Mangrove Marsh   from the Florida Oceanographic Society
• Impounded Salt and Mangrove Marshes   info from Florida Oceanographic
  Society on the adverse effects of diking and flooding mangrove and salt
  marshes to prevent salt marsh mosquitoes from laying their eggs.
• Pepperbusters and Johnny Mangrove Project   project in the Indian River
  Lagoon to replenish mangroves which have been overrun by the Brazilian
  Pepper.
• Florida's Mangrove Preservation Act   Chapter 403, Part VII of Florida
  Statutes
• Black Mangrove   from Forest Trees of Florida
• Florida Mangroves: pictures and descriptions from About Tampa Bay
• Mangroves   info on species in Florida and the Keys
• Red Mangrove   from "Forest Trees of Florida"
• White Mangrove   from "Forest Trees of Florida"

Estuaries & Lagoons

• Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program
• Sarasota Bay National Estuary Program
• The Tampa Bay Estuary Program: Saving Tampa Bay   Hillsborough County
• National Estuary Program Profiles: Sarasota Bay
• National Estuary Program Profiles: Tampa Bay
• Florida Center for Environmental Studies, Researching Tropical/Subtropical Water Dominated Ecosystems facilitates and coordinates environmental research and training, and communicates environmental knowledge.
• Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve  The proposal for the recently approved reserve.
• Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve   Near Naples
• Rookery Bay NERR (Naples)
• Estuarine Bathymetry - East Gulf (NOAA)   Data used for navigational
  tools, geographic mapping and modeling.
• North America's Most Diverse Estuary   The Indian River Lagoon. Info from
  Capt. Tod Hagan
• The Indian River Lagoon, Unique Estuary
• Living Lagoon (Indian River Lagoon)
• Indian River Lagoon   photos from the South Florida Water Management District
• Indian River Lagoon Coloring Book   from the South Florida Water Management District
• Fish Health in the St. Lucie Estuarine System  (USGS/ S. Florida Ecosystem
  info access)
• Apalachicola NERR
• Apalachicola NERR(National Research Reserve)
• FATHOM - Volume 7, No.4  Online issue dedicated to taking a look at
  Florida's estuaries.
• 13 Studied for Estuary-Linked Illness  Article from the Florida Times-Union

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