Florida Coastal Everglades LTER - Personnel Profiles

John Kominoski

FCE Site Role
Principal Investigator

Affiliation
Florida International University

Research
Biodiversity-ecosystem functioning, global change biology, terrestrial-aquatic linkages

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

FCE Publications (25)
Book Chapters
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.
Journal Articles
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 .

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.

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.

Datasets (3)
FCE Datasets
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
Related Datasets
The Floccometer: A long-term research site in the Ridge and Slough Everglades

Recent FCE Leveraged Projects

Assessing near-field and landscape scale ecological effects of the Modified Water Deliveries and Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan Projects in Northeast Shark River Slough, Everglades National Park
Authors: Kominoski, J., Gaiser, E.E., J.C. Trexler, L.J. Scinto
Funding organization: Everglades National Park-U.S. Department of Interior
Time period: 01 Oct 2016 - 30 Sep 2021

Quantifying how variability in hydroperiod and fire mediate plant-soil biogeochemical cycling and productivity in boundary wetlands of Everglades National Park
Authors: Kominoski, J., E.E. Gaiser, A. Nocentini
Funding organization: National Park Service - Department of the Interior
Time period: Aug 2018 - Aug 2021

Ecosystem responses to hurricanes synthesis workshop
Authors: Patrick, C., W.H. McDowell, J. Kominoski
Funding organization: National Science Foundation
Time period: 14 Nov 2018 - 31 Oct 2020

Urban Resilience to Extremes Sustainability Research Network. Subaward from Arizona State University
Authors: Gaiser, E.E., T. Troxler, J. Kominoski
Funding organization: National Science Foundation
Time period: Jun 2015 - Jun 2020

The effects of projected sea-level rise on Everglades coastal ecosystems: Enhancing and continuing experiments to evaluate peat collapse and landscape vulnerability
Authors: Troxler, T., F.H. Sklar, E.E. Gaiser, J. Kominoski
Funding organization: Florida Sea Grant, NOAA
Time period: Feb 2018 - Feb 2020

RAPID: Hurricane Irma: How do ecosystem perturbations interact to influence long-term resilience mechanisms?
Authors: Gaiser, E.E., M.R. Heithaus, K. Zhang, T. Troxler, J. Kominoski
Funding organization: National Science Foundation
Time period: Dec 2017 - Dec 2019

Dissertation Research: Sea-level rise and vegetation regimes shifts: Implications for soil carbon storage and ecosystem resilience in Everglades coastal wetlands
Authors: Kominoski, J., S.P. Charles
Funding organization: National Science Foundation
Time period: 01 Jun 2016 - 31 May 2019

Recent FCE Presentations
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.

Aponte Rolon, B., M. Sanchez Julia, S. Van Bael, E. Castañeda-Moya and J. Kominoski. 2019. Leaf and root endophytes of mangroves in south Florida. 2019 FCE LTER All Scientists Meeting, Fairchild Tropical Garden, Coral Gables, Florida, May 8, 2019 - May 9, 2019.

Johnson, D.N. and J. Kominoski. 2019. Quantifying how hydroclimatic events interact with water management to drive landscape-scale changes in wetland soil biogeochemistry. 2019 FCE LTER All Scientists Meeting, Fairchild Tropical Garden, Coral Gables, Florida, May 8, 2019 - May 9, 2019.

Kuhn, A., J. Kominoski, A.R. Armitage, S.P. Charles, S.C. Pennings, C.A. Weaver and T. Maddox. 2019. Quantifying how plant species identity and density affect soil biogeochemistry during a hurricane. 2019 FCE LTER All Scientists Meeting, Fairchild Tropical Garden, Coral Gables, Florida, May 8, 2019 - May 9, 2019.

Martens-Habbena, W., P. Weisenhorn, S. Chakrabarti, L. Huang and J. Kominoski. 2019. Preliminary results on soil and sediment microbial communities in the Greater Florida Everglades. 2019 FCE LTER All Scientists Meeting, Fairchild Tropical Garden, Coral Gables, Florida, May 8, 2019 - May 9, 2019.

Nocentini, A. and J. Kominoski. 2019. Understanding short- and long-term effects of fire on wetland biogeochemistry to forecast changes in phosphorus-limitation and carbon storage. 2019 FCE LTER All Scientists Meeting, Fairchild Tropical Garden, Coral Gables, Florida, May 8, 2019 - May 9, 2019.

Phelan-Reyes, T., J. Kominoski, N. Oehm, T. Casal, P. Thompson and C. Basterrechea. 2019. The effects of salinity on leaf litter breakdown in the Florida Coastal Everglades. 2019 FCE LTER All Scientists Meeting, Fairchild Tropical Garden, Coral Gables, Florida, May 8, 2019 - May 9, 2019.

Sanchez Julia, M., B. Aponte Rolon, S. Van Bael, E. Castañeda-Moya and J. Kominoski. 2019. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi of coastal mangroves in south Florida. 2019 FCE LTER All Scientists Meeting, Fairchild Tropical Garden, Coral Gables, Florida, May 8, 2019 - May 9, 2019.

Zeller, M. and J. Kominoski. 2019. Characterization of fluorescent dissolved organic matter released from peat soils upon saltwater intrusion. 2019 FCE LTER All Scientists Meeting, Fairchild Tropical Garden, Coral Gables, Florida, May 8, 2019 - May 9, 2019.

Kominoski, J.. 2019. How does freshwater restoration change marsh ecosystem biogeochemistry? A Northeast Shark River Slough case study. Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration Meeting, Coral Springs, Florida, April 23, 2019.

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