Personnel Profiles

• Mailing address:
• Department of Biological Sciences
• Florida International University
• 11200 SW 8th St, OE 167
• Miami, FL 33199
• Email: jkominos@fiu.edu

Kominoski, J., J.S. Rehage, W.T. Anderson, R. Boucek, H.O. Briceno, M.R. Bush, T.W. Dreschel, M.R. Heithaus, R. Jaffe, L. Larsen, P. Matich, C. McVoy, A.E. Rosenblatt, and T. Troxler. 2019. Chapter 4: Ecosystem Fragmentation and Connectivity - Legacies and Future Implications of a Restored Everglades, in Childers, D.L., E.E. Gaiser and L.A. Ogden (eds.) The Coastal Everglades: The Dynamics of Social-Ecological Transformation in the South Florida Landscape. Oxford University Press : New York, New York.

Troxler, T., G. Starr, J.N. Boyer, J.D. Fuentes, R. Jaffe, S.L. Malone, J.G. Barr, S.E. Davis, L. Collado-Vides, J.L. Breithaupt, A.K. Saha, R.M. Chambers, C.J. Madden, J.M. Smoak, J.W. Fourqurean, G. Koch, J. Kominoski, L.J. Scinto, S. Oberbauer, V.H. Rivera-Monroy, E. Castañeda-Moya, N.O. Schulte, S.P. Charles, J.H. Richards, D.T. Rudnick, and K.R.T. Whelan. 2019. Chapter 6: Carbon Cycles in the Florida Coastal Everglades Social-Ecological System across Scales, in Childers, D.L., E.E. Gaiser and L.A. Ogden (eds.) The Coastal Everglades: The Dynamics of Social-Ecological Transformation in the South Florida Landscape. Oxford University Press : New York, New York.

Trexler, J.C., E.E. Gaiser, J. Kominoski, and J.L. Sanchez. 2015. The Role of Periphyton Mats in Consumer Community Structure and Function in Calcareous Wetlands: Lessons from the Everglades, pp. 155-179 in Entry, J., K. Jayachandran, A.D. Gottlieb and A. Ogram (eds.) Microbiology of the Everglades Ecosystem. CRC Press : Boca Raton, Florida.

Castañeda-Moya, E., V.H. Rivera-Monroy, R.M. Chambers, X. Zhao, L. Lamb-Wotton, A. Gorsky, E.E. Gaiser, T. Troxler, J. Kominoski, and M. Hiatt. 2020. Hurricanes fertilize mangrove forests in the Gulf of Mexico (Florida Everglades, USA). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117: 4831-4841.

Dessu, S.B., R.M. Price, J. Kominoski, S.E. Davis, A. Wymore, W.H. McDowell, and E.E. Gaiser. 2020. Percentile-Range Indexed Mapping and Evaluation (PRIME): A new tool for long-term data discovery and application. Environmental Modelling & Software 124: 104580.

Gaiser, E.E., D.M. Bell, M.C.N. Castorani, D.L. Childers, P.M. Groffman, R.C. Jackson, J. Kominoski, D.P.C. Peters, S.T.A. Pickett, J. Ripplinger, and J.C. Zinnert. 2020. Long term ecological research and evolving frameworks of disturbance ecology. BioScience 70: 141-156.

Hogan, J.A. et al. 2020. A research framework to investigate ecosystem responses to tropical cyclones. BioScience DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biaa034.

Kominoski, J., E.E. Gaiser, E. Castañeda-Moya, S.E. Davis, S.B. Dessu, P. Julian, D.Y. Lee, L. Marazzi, V.H. Rivera-Monroy, A. Sola, U. Stingl, S. Stumpf, D.D. Surratt, R. Travieso, and T. Troxler. 2020. Disturbance legacies increase and synchronize nutrient concentrations and bacterial productivity in coastal ecosystems. Ecology DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2988.

Mazzei, V., B.J. Wilson, S. Servais, S.P. Charles, J. Kominoski, and E.E. Gaiser. 2020. Periphyton as an indicator of saltwater intrusion into freshwater wetlands: insights from experimental manipulations. Ecological Applications DOI: 10.1002/eap.2067.

Sarker, S., J. Kominoski, E.E. Gaiser, L. Scinto, and D.T. Rudnick. 2020. Quantifying effects of increased hydroperiod on wetland nutrient concentrations during early phases of freshwater restoration of the Florida Everglades . Restoration Ecology DOI: 10.1111/rec.13231.

Servais, S., J. Kominoski, C. Coronado-Molina, L. Bauman, S.E. Davis, E.E. Gaiser, S.P. Kelly, C.J. Madden, V. Mazzei, D.T. Rudnick, F. Santamaria, F.H. Sklar, J. Stachelek, T. Troxler, and B.J. Wilson. 2020. Effects of saltwater pulses on soil microbial enzymes and organic matter breakdown in freshwater and brackish coastal wetlands. Estuaries and Coasts DOI: 10.1007/s12237-020-00708-1.

Breithaupt, J.L., N. Hurst, H.E. Steinmuller, E. Duga, J.M. Smoak, J. Kominoski, and L.G. Chambers. 2019. Comparing the biogeochemistry of storm surge sediments and pre-storm soils in coastal wetlands: Hurricane Irma and the Florida Everglades. Estuaries and Coasts DOI: 10.1007/s12237-019-00607-0.

Charles, S.P., J. Kominoski, T. Troxler, E.E. Gaiser, S. Servais, B.J. Wilson, S.E. Davis, F.H. Sklar, C. Coronado-Molina, C.J. Madden, S.P. Kelly, and D.T. Rudnick. 2019. Experimental saltwater intrusion drives rapid soil elevation and carbon loss in freshwater and brackish Everglades marshes. Estuaries and Coasts 42: 1868-1881.

Servais, S., J. Kominoski, S.E. Davis, E.E. Gaiser, J.C. Pachon, and T. Troxler. 2019. Effects of nutrient-limitation on disturbance recovery in experimental mangrove wetlands. Wetlands 39: 337-347.

Servais, S., J. Kominoski, S.P. Charles, E.E. Gaiser, V. Mazzei, T. Troxler, and B.J. Wilson. 2019. Saltwater intrusion and soil carbon loss: Testing effects of salinity and phosphorus loading on microbial functions in experimental freshwater wetlands. Geoderma 337: 1291-1300.

Tully, K., K. Gedan, R. Epanchin-Niell, A. Strong, E.S. Bernhardt, T. BenDor, M. Mitchell, J. Kominoski, T.E. Jordan, S.C. Neubauer, and N. Weston. 2019. The invisible flood: the chemistry, ecology, and social implications of coastal saltwater intrusion. BioScience 69: 368-378.

Wilson, B.J., S. Servais, S.P. Charles, V. Mazzei, E.E. Gaiser, J. Kominoski, J.H. Richards, and T. Troxler. 2019. Phosphorus alleviation of salinity stress: effects of saltwater intrusion on an Everglades freshwater peat marsh. Ecology 100: e02672.

Davis, S.E., R. Boucek, E. Castañeda-Moya, S.B. Dessu, E.E. Gaiser, J. Kominoski, J.P. Sah, D.D. Surratt, and T. Troxler. 2018. Episodic disturbances drive nutrient dynamics along freshwater-to-estuary gradients in a subtropical wetland. Ecosphere 9: e02296.

Dessu, S.B., R.M. Price, T. Troxler, and J. Kominoski. 2018. Effects of sea-level rise and freshwater management on long-term water levels and water quality in the Florida Coastal Everglades. Journal of Environmental Management 211: 164-176.

Kominoski, J., E.E. Gaiser, and S.G. Baer. 2018. Advancing theories of ecosystem development through long-term ecological research. BioScience 68: 554-562.

Marazzi, L., C.M. Finlayson, P.A. Gell, P. Julian, J. Kominoski, and E.E. Gaiser. 2018. Balancing wetland restoration benefits to people and nature. The Solutions Journal 9.

Mazzei, V., E.E. Gaiser, J. Kominoski, B.J. Wilson, S. Servais, L. Bauman, S.E. Davis, S.P. Kelly, F.H. Sklar, D.T. Rudnick, J. Stachelek, and T. Troxler. 2018. Functional and compositional responses of periphyton mats to simulated saltwater intrusion in the southern Everglades. Estuaries and Coasts 41: 2105-2119.

Sola, A., L. Marazzi, M.M. Flores, J. Kominoski, and E.E. Gaiser. 2018. Short-term effects of drying-rewetting and long-term effects of nutrient loading on periphyton N:P stoichiometry. Water 10: 105.

Wilson, B.J., S. Servais, A.D. Gottlieb, J. Kominoski, M. Hu, S.E. Davis, E.E. Gaiser, F.H. Sklar, L. Bauman, S.P. Kelly, C.J. Madden, J.H. Richards, D.T. Rudnick, J. Stachelek, and T. Troxler. 2018. Salinity pulses interact with seasonal dry-down to increase ecosystem carbon loss in marshes of the Florida Everglades. Ecological Applications 28: 2092-2108.

Wilson, B.J., S. Servais, S.P. Charles, S.E. Davis, E.E. Gaiser, J. Kominoski, J.H. Richards, and T. Troxler. 2018. Declines in plant productivity drive carbon loss from brackish coastal wetland mesocosms exposed to saltwater intrusion. Estuaries and Coasts 41: 2147-2158.

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.

Mangrove soil phosphorus addition experiment from July 2013 to August 2013 at the mangrove peat soil mesocosms (FCE), Key Largo, Florida - Nutrients in Surface Water and Aboveground Biomass

Mangrove soil phosphorus addition experiment from June 2013 to August 2013 at the mangrove peat soil mesocosms (FCE), Key Largo, Florida - Nutrients in Porewater, Soil and Roots

The Floccometer: A long-term research site in the Ridge and Slough Everglades

Smoak, J.M., J.L. Breithaupt, R.P. Moyer, K. Radabaugh, T.S. Bianchi, D. Vaughn, B.E. Rosenheim, C. Schafer, L.G. Chambers, S. Harttung and J. Kominoski. 2019. Sea-level rise and storms alter soil carbon dynamics of southwest Florida mangrove forests. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 13, 2019.

Castañeda-Moya, E., V.H. Rivera-Monroy, R.M. Chambers, R. Chambers, X. Zhao, L. Lamb-Wotton, A. Gorsky, E.E. Gaiser, T. Troxler, J. Kominoski and M. Hiatt. 2019. Hurricanes fertilize coastal wetlands in the Gulf of Mexico: The case of Florida Everglades mangroves. Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation 25th Biennial Conference, Mobile, Alabama, November 7, 2019.

Zeller, M., B. Van Dam, C. Lopes and J. Kominoski. 2019. A diel study of fluorescent DOM in Florida Bay seagrasses overlaying carbonate sediments. Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation 25th Biennial Conference, Mobile, Alabama, November 5, 2019.

Troxler, T., B.J. Wilson, F.H. Sklar, S.P. Charles, J. Kominoski, E.E. Gaiser, C. Coronado-Molina, S.P. Kelly, S.E. Davis, K. Ishtiaq, J.H. Richards and D. Gann. 2019. Responses of marsh ecosystems to coastal change in the Southeastern Florida Everglades. Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation 25th Biennial Conference, Mobile, Alabama, November 4, 2019.

Gaiser, E.E., E. Castañeda-Moya, J. Kominoski, J.S. Rehage, T. Troxler and K. Zhang. 2019. Hurricanes interact with disturbance legacies to effect ecosystem resilience. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting 2019, Louisville, Kentucky, August 12, 2019.

Kominoski, J., E.E. Gaiser, M. Ardon, E.S. Bernhardt, L.G. Chambers, S.P. Charles, J.A. Cherry, C. Craft, S.E. Davis, K. Gedan, A.M. Helton, M.L. Kirwan, K.W. Krauss, P. Megonigal, S.C. Neubauer, M.J. Osland, S.C. Pennings, S. Servais, T. Troxler, K. Tully and B.J. Wilson. 2019. Comparing effects of saltwater intrusion on carbon loss among coastal wetland ecosystems: From monitoring to mechanisms. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting 2019, Louisville, Kentucky, August 12, 2019.

Smith, M.D., J. Kominoski, E.E. Gaiser, T. Troxler, O. Barbosa and N.B. Grimm. 2019. A comparison of nutrient uptake dynamics in urban wetlands across different regional climates. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting 2019, Louisville, Kentucky, August 12, 2019.