We would like to thank Greg May, the Executive Director of the
South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Task Force, and Rock
Salt, Co-chair of the Science Coordination Group, for their
support in making the publication of the special issue of
Ecological Indicators possible. We would also like to thank G.
Ronnie Best, US Geological Survey for additional financial
support in the publication of this special issue. Finally, we
thank Bob Doren for spurring us on to further development of
this indicator. Portions of this project were possible due to the
funding by the South Florida Water Management District
(4600000352) and by the National Science Foundation through
the Florida Coastal Everglades Long-Term Ecological Research
Program (DBI-0620409). This is contribution #413 of the