. I am also greatly indebted to Colin Saunders for his much needed SAS programming skills and statistical help. Thank you to Jenny Richards and Carlos Coronado-Molina for their invaluable insight and patience to help me better understand sawgrass biomass allocation and ecotone process and function. And lastly I would like to thank Dan Childers, for not only paying my bills for the past three years, but providing me an opportunity to expand my knowledge of wetland ecology and for his "work hard, play hard" mentality.