Development of an Integrated Surface Water-Groundwater Model for wetland restoration and habitat evaluation in a Southwest Florida Basin using MIKE SHE Part II- Development of a Regional Scale Model

摘要

The Picayune Strand Restoration Project, a component of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP), aims to restore the hydrology of approximately 95 square miles of drained wetland areas in Southwest Florida. The restoration of the Picayune Strand is important because of its location and connectivity to critical preserved areas that serve as wildlife habitat and also the headwaters of the Ten Thousand Islands estuary. The excessive drainage of this area have had several detrimental ecological and hydrologic impacts such as: reduction of groundwater levels, increased freshwater loads to critical estuaries, increase of invasive exotic vegetation and upland species, increased fire frequency, and loss of wildlife habitat connectivity.