Projects of the scope of the restoration of the Florida Everglades require substantial
information regarding ecological mechanisms, and these are often poorly understood. We provide critical
base knowledge for Everglades restoration by characterizing the existing vegetation communities of an
Everglades remnant, describing how present and historic hydrology affect wetland vegetation community
composition, and documenting change from communities described in previous studies. Vegetation
biomass samples were collected along transects across Water Conservation Area 3A South (3AS)
