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

FCE Working groups
Detritus & Microbes, Hydrologic Connectivity

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 (31)
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
Lee, D.Y., J. Kominoski, M. Kline, M. Robinson, and S. Roebling. 2021. Saltwater and nutrient legacies reduce net ecosystem carbon storage despite freshwater restoration: insights from experimental wetlands. Restoration Ecology DOI: 10.1111/rec.13524: e13524.

Malone, S.L., J. Zhao, J. Kominoski, G. Starr, C.L. Staudhammer, P.C. Olivas, J.A. Cummings, and S. Oberbauer. 2021. Integrating aquatic metabolism and net ecosystem CO2 balance in short- and long-hydroperiod subtropical freshwater wetlands. Ecosystems DOI: 10.1007/s10021-021-00672-2.

Nocentini, A., J. Kominoski, and J.P. Sah. 2021. Interactive effects of hydrology and fire drive differential biogeochemical legacies in subtropical wetlands. Ecosphere 12: e03408.

Servais, S., J. Kominoski, M. Fernandez, and K. Morales. 2021. Saltwater and phosphorus drive unique soil biogeochemical processes in freshwater and brackish wetland mesocosms. Ecosphere 12: e03704.

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 70: 477-489.

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.

Zeller, M., B. Van Dam, C. Lopes, and J. Kominoski. 2020. Carbonate-associated organic matter is a putative FDOM source in a subtropical seagrass meadow. Frontiers in Marine Science - Marine Biogeochemistry DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2020.580284.

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 (6)
FCE Datasets
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
Creators: Kominoski, John; Gaiser, Evelyn;

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
Creators: Kominoski, John; Gaiser, Evelyn;

Biogeochemical data collected from Northeast Shark River Slough, Everglades National Park, Florida from September 2006 to present
Creators: Rizzie, Chris; Nocentini, Andrea; Sarker, Shishir; Kominoski, John; Gaiser, Evelyn; Scinto, Leonard;

The Salinity and phosphorus mesocosm experiment in freshwater sawgrass wetlands: Determining the trajectory and capacity of freshwater wetland ecosystems to recover carbon losses from saltwater intrusion (FCE LTER), Florida, USA from 2015 to 2018
Creators: Lee, Dong Yoon; Wilson, Ben J.; Servais, Shelby; Mazzei, Viviana; Kominoski, John;

Vegetation data collected from Northeast Shark River Slough, Everglades National Park, Florida, from September 2006 to present
Creators: Rizzie, Chris B.; Nocentini, Andrea; Tobias, Franco; Kominoski, John S.; Evelyn, Gaiser;

Saltwater Coastal Carbon Flux Synthesis
Creators: Kominoski, John;

Recent FCE Leveraged Projects

RCN-HERS: Research Coordination Network for Hurricane Ecosystem Response Synthesis
Authors: Patrick, C., J. Kominoski, W.H. McDowell, B.A. Stauffer
Funding organization: National Science Foundation
Time period: 01 Jun 2020 - 31 Dec 2024

Collaborative Research: Scales and drivers of variability in dissolved organic carbon across diverse urban watersheds
Authors: Hale, R., J. Kominoski, K. Capps, J. Morse, A. Roy, K. Hopkins
Funding organization: National Science Foundation
Time period: 01 Jan 2020 - 01 Jan 2023

Hurricane Irma effects on Florida Everglades mangroves: Assessment of resilience and trajectories of recovery
Authors: Castañeda-Moya, E., T. Troxler, J. Kominoski, D. Lagomasino, J.P. Sah
Funding organization: National Park Service - Department of the Interior
Time period: 01 Jun 2020 - 31 Dec 2022

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: Gaiser, E., Kominoski, J., J.C. Trexler, L.J. Scinto
Funding organization: Everglades National Park
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: 01 Aug 2018 - 01 Aug 2021

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., J. Kominoski, E.E. Gaiser, F.H. Sklar, D.T. Rudnick, S.E. Davis
Funding organization: Florida Sea Grant, NOAA
Time period: 01 Feb 2018 - 01 Feb 2021

SOFL-CESU: Investigate sediment and floc transport of phosphorus at S333 gated structure on the northern boundary of Everglades National Park
Authors: Kominoski, J.
Funding organization: Everglades National Park-CESU
Time period: 01 Jan 2020 - 01 Jan 2021

The effects of shifting coastal wetland plant communities on the restoration of food webs that support coastal living resources
Authors: Armitage, A., J. Kominoski, S.C. Pennings
Funding organization: NOAA, Texas Sea Grant
Time period: 01 Jan 2018 - 01 Jan 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., J. Kominoski, T. Troxler, K. Grove, R. Roy Chowdhury
Funding organization: National Science Foundation
Time period: 01 Jun 2015 - 01 Jun 2020

Recent FCE Presentations
Kominoski, J., C.A. Weaver, A.R. Armitage, and S.C. Pennings. 2021. Coastal carbon processing rates increase with mangrove cover following a hurricane in Texas, USA. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting 2021, Virtual, August 2, 2021 - August 6, 2021.

Nocentini, A., J. Kominoski, J. O'Brien, and J. Redwine. 2021. Fire causes a stronger release of nutrient limitation in higher than lower phosphorus-limited subtropical wetlands. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting 2021, Virtual, August 2, 2021 - August 6, 2021.

Kominoski, J.. 2021. Bridging Towards Restoration: Quantifying How Increases in Freshwater Hydroperiod are Changing the Ecology of Northeast Shark River Slough, Everglades National Park. Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration (GEER) Meeting, Virtual, April 20, 2021.

Anderson, K.J., S. Hoffman, A. Nocentini, M. Zeller, J. Redwine, and J. Kominoski. 2020. Phosphorus effects on dissolved organic carbon (DOC) composition in peat and marl freshwater marshes. 2020 FCE LTER All Scientists Meeting, Virtual, December 4, 2020.

Gaiser, E.E., D.M. Bell, M.C.N. Castorani, D.L. Childers, P.M. Groffman, C.R. 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. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting 2020, Virtual, August 3, 2020 - August 6, 2020.

Kominoski, J., A.R. Armitage, S.C. Pennings, and C.A. Weaver. 2020. Differences in organic matter processing rates in marsh-mangrove wetlands are homogenized following a major hurricane. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting 2020, Virtual, August 3, 2020 - August 6, 2020.

Nocentini, A., J. Kominoski, J.P. Sah, and M.S. Ross. 2020. Comparing biogeochemical legacies of fire and hydrology in short- and long-hydroperiod wetlands. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting 2020, Virtual, August 3, 2020 - August 6, 2020.

Smith, M.A., J. Kominoski, R.M. Price, E.E. Gaiser, and T. Troxler. 2020. Evaluating spatiotemporal variation in water source contributions to coastal urban canal networks using an endmember mixing model. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting 2020, Virtual, August 3, 2020 - August 6, 2020.

Castañeda-Moya, E., V.H. Rivera-Monroy, R.M. Chambers, X. Zhao, L. Lamb-Wotton, A. Nocentini, E.E. Gaiser, T. Troxler, J. Kominoski, and M. Hiatt. 2020. Hurricanes fertilize mangrove forests in the Gulf of Mexico (Florida Everglades, USA). . Hurricon conference, East Carolina University. Greenville, North Carolina, February 27, 2020.

Kominoski, J.. 2020. Understanding disturbance through long-term ecological research. University of Houston, Department of Biology and Biochemistry Seminar, Houston, Texas, January 15, 2020.

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