Florida Coastal Everglades LTER - Personnel Profiles

Paulo Olivas

FCE Site Role
Project Collaborator

Affiliation
Florida International University

Research
Environmental change, responses and adaptations in natural and urban areas; Vegetation dynamics at multiple temporal and spatial scales; GIS and remote sensing; Citizen Science, community engagement and for environmental monitoring.

Contact
- Mailing address:
- Department of Earth and Environment
- Florida International University
- 11200 SW 8th Street, AHC5-361
- Miami, FL 33199
- Email: paolivas@fiu.edu

FCE Publications (10)
Journal Articles
Lamb-Wotton, L., T. Troxler, C. Coronado-Molina, S.E. Davis, D. Gann, K. Ishtiaq, S.L. Malone, P.C. Olivas, D.T. Rudnick, and F.H. Sklar. 2024. Evaluating hydrogeomorphic condition across ecosystem states in a non-tidal, brackish peat marsh of the Florida Coastal Everglades, USA. Estuaries and Coasts DOI: 10.1007/s12237-024-01364-5.

Malone, S.L., J. Zhao, J. Kominoski, G. Starr, C.L. Staudhammer, P.C. Olivas, J.A. Cummings, and S. Oberbauer. 2022. Integrating aquatic metabolism and net ecosystem CO2 balance in short- and long-hydroperiod subtropical freshwater wetlands. Ecosystems 25: 567-585.

Richards, J.H., and P.C. Olivas. 2019. A common-mesocosm experiment recreates sawgrass (Cladium jamaicense) phenotypes from Everglades marl prairies and peat marshes. American Journal of Botany 107: 1-10.

Zhao, J., S.L. Malone, S. Oberbauer, P.C. Olivas, J. Schedlbauer, C.L. Staudhammer, and G. Starr. 2019. Intensified inundation shifts a freshwater wetland from a CO2 sink to a source. Global Change Biology 25: 3319-3333.

Zhao, J., P.C. Olivas, S. Kunwor, S.L. Malone, C.L. Staudhammer, G. Starr, and S. Oberbauer. 2018. Comparison of sensible heat flux measured by large aperture scintillometer and eddy covariance in a seasonally-inundated wetland. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 259: 345-354.

Zhao, J., S. Oberbauer, P.C. Olivas, J. Schedlbauer, J.L. May, J. Moser, S.L. Malone, C.L. Staudhammer, and G. Starr. 2018. Contrasting photosynthetic responses of two dominant macrophyte species to seasonal inundation in an Everglades freshwater prairie. Wetlands 38: 893-903.

Malone, S.L., C. Keough, C.L. Staudhammer, M.G. Ryan, W.J. Parton, P.C. Olivas, S. Oberbauer, J. Schedlbauer, and G. Starr. 2015. Ecosystem resistance in the face of climate change: A case study from the freshwater marshes of the Florida Everglades. Ecosphere 6: Article 57.

Malone, S.L., C.L. Staudhammer, H. Loescher, P.C. Olivas, S. Oberbauer, M.G. Ryan, J. Schedlbauer, and G. Starr. 2014. Seasonal patterns in energy partitioning of two freshwater marsh ecosystems in the Florida Everglades. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 119: 1487-1505.

Malone, S.L., C.L. Staudhammer, S. Oberbauer, P.C. Olivas, M.G. Ryan, J. Schedlbauer, H. Loescher, and G. Starr. 2014. El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) enhances CO2 exchange rates in freshwater marsh ecosystems in the Florida Everglades . PLoS ONE 9: e115058.

Troxler, T. et al. 2013. Integrated carbon budget models for the Everglades terrestrial-coastal-oceanic gradient: current status and needs for inter-site comparisons. Oceanography 26: 98-107.

Recent FCE Leveraged Projects

Optimization of LiDAR data processing algorithms for wetland graminoid marsh and prairie vegetation
Authors: Gann, D., P.C. Olivas, J.H. Richards, S. Wdowinski, K. Zhang
Funding organization: National Park Service - Department of the Interior
Time period: 15 May 2018 - 31 May 2020

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Paulo Olivas