The Everglades Vulnerability Analysis (EVA) is a series of connected Bayesian networks that models the landscape-scale response of indicators of Everglades ecosystem health to changes in hydrology and salinity on the landscape. Using the uncertainty built into each network, it produces surfaces of vulnerability in relation to user-defined ‘ideal’ outcomes. Currently, the EVA can model Everglades vegetation dynamics, sawgrass peat accretion and subsidence, American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) nesting, and wading bird colony sizes. Additional indicators may be available in the future.
Everglades Vulnerability Analysis
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D’Acunto LE, Pearlstine L, Haider SM, Hackett CE, Shinde D and Romañach SS (2023) The Everglades vulnerability
analysis: Linking ecological models to support ecosystem restoration. Front. Ecol. Evol. 11:1111551. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2023.1111551
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2023.1111551/full
D'Acunto, L.E., Pearlstine, L., Haider, S.M., Hackett, C.E., Shinde, D., and Romañach, S.S., 2023, Everglades Vulnerability Analysis (EVA) modeling scripts and output: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9JPVPGV.
D'Acunto, L.E., Hackett, C.E., Haider, S.M., Benscoter, A.M., and Romañach, S.S., 2023, Updates to the Everglades Vulnerability Analysis (EVA) vegetation module: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9QKJR3G.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2023.1111551/full
D'Acunto, L.E., Pearlstine, L., Haider, S.M., Hackett, C.E., Shinde, D., and Romañach, S.S., 2023, Everglades Vulnerability Analysis (EVA) modeling scripts and output: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9JPVPGV.
D'Acunto, L.E., Hackett, C.E., Haider, S.M., Benscoter, A.M., and Romañach, S.S., 2023, Updates to the Everglades Vulnerability Analysis (EVA) vegetation module: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9QKJR3G.
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