Personnel Profiles

• Mailing address:
• School of the Environment
• Yale University
• 195 Prospect Street
• New Haven, CT 06511
• Email: sparkle.malone@yale.edu

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.

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.

Malone, S.L., Y. Oh, K.A. Arndt, G. Burba, R. Commane, A.R. Contosta, J.P. Goodrich, H. Loescher, G. Starr, and R. Varner. 2022. Gaps in network infrastructure limit our understanding of biogenic methane emissions for the United States. Biogeosciences 19: 2507-2522.

Staudhammer, C.L., S.L. Malone, J. Zhao, Z. Yu, G. Starr, and S. Oberbauer. 2022. Methane emissions from subtropical wetlands: An evaluation of the role of data filtering on annual methane budgets. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 321: 108972.

Yu, Z., C.L. Staudhammer, S.L. Malone, S. Oberbauer, J. Zhao, J.A. Cherry, and G. Starr. 2022. Biophysical factors influence methane fluxes in subtropical freshwater wetlands using eddy covariance methods. Ecosystems DOI: 10.1007/s10021-022-00787-0.

Zhao, J., S.L. Malone, C.L. Staudhammer, G. Starr, H. Hartmann, and S. Oberbauer. 2021. Freshwater wetland plants respond nonlinearly to inundation over a sustained period. American Journal of Botany 108: 1917-1931.

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., J.G. Barr, J.D. Fuentes, S. Oberbauer, E.E. Gaiser, and G. Starr. 2016. Sensitivity to low-temperature events: Implications for CO2 dynamics in subtropical coastal ecosystems. Wetlands 36: 957-967.

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.

Malone, S.L., G. Starr, C.L. Staudhammer, and M.G. Ryan. 2013. Effects of simulated drought on the carbon balance of Everglades short-hydroperiod marsh. Global Change Biology 19: 2511-2523.

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.

Jimenez, K.L., G. Starr, C.L. Staudhammer, J. Schedlbauer, H. Loescher, S.L. Malone, and S. Oberbauer. 2012. Carbon dioxide exchange rates from short- and long-hydroperiod Everglades freshwater marsh. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences 117: G04009.

Malone, Sparkle . 2014. Hydrology drives Everglades ecosystem function: implications for ecosystem vulnerability to drought, energy balance, climate teleconnections and climate change. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Alabama.

Malone, S.L.. 2023. Mangrove forests are an unlikely source of CH4 to the atmosphere in the subtropical Florida Everglades. Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration (GEER) Meeting, Coral Springs, Florida, April 19, 2023.

Gillespie, B., S.L. Malone, S. Oberbauer, T. Troxler, and E. Castañeda-Moya. 2023. Hydro-edaphic conditions can limit carbon sequestration in mangrove dominated blue carbon ecosystems. 2023 FCE LTER All Scientists Meeting, Fairchild Tropical Garden, Coral Gables, Florida, February 27, 2023.

Richey, A., J. Kominoski, P.C. Olivas, and S.L. Malone. 2023. Water level and surface salinity trends and relationships in the Everglades freshwater-saline ecotone. 2023 FCE LTER All Scientists Meeting, Fairchild Tropical Garden, Coral Gables, Florida, February 27, 2023.

Zhao, J., S.L. Malone, S. Oberbauer, C.L. Staudhammer, and G. Starr. 2022. Investigating the inundation effect on carbon balance of an Everglades freshwater wetland: A combination of field observations and mesocosm experiments. American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois and Virtual, December 15, 2022.

Malone, S.L., Y. Oh, R. Commane, A.R. Contosta, and R. Varner. 2022. Methane emission potential across subtropical, temperate, and arctic ecosystems. 2022 LTER All Scientists Meeting, Asilomar, California, September 19, 2022 - September 23, 2022.

McLeod, M.G., D. Gann, M.S. Ross, and S.L. Malone. 2022. Fire history and climate drive patterns of post-fire recovery in Everglades upland ecosystems. 2022 LTER All Scientists Meeting, Asilomar, California, September 19, 2022 - September 23, 2022.

Richey, A., J. Kominoski, P.C. Olivas, and S.L. Malone. 2022. Water level and surface salinity trends in the Everglades freshwater-saline ecotone. 2022 LTER All Scientists Meeting, Asilomar, California, September 19, 2022 - September 23, 2022.

Malone, S.L.. 2022. Climate change and sea level rise deepen the social divide in south Florida: managing landscapes for an equitable future. New Horizons in Conservation Conference, Virtual, March 29, 2022.

Gonzalez, B., S.L. Malone, M.G. McLeod, and A. Richey. 2022. Differences in water level synchrony between recent El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events. 2022 FCE LTER All Scientists Meeting, Fairchild Tropical Garden, Coral Gables, Florida, March 2, 2022.

McLeod, M.G., and S.L. Malone. 2022. Proposal: Fire history and climate drive patterns of post-fire recovery in Everglades upland ecosystems. 2022 FCE LTER All Scientists Meeting, Fairchild Tropical Garden, Coral Gables, Florida, March 2, 2022.

Prajapati, P., S.L. Malone, T. Troxler, and E. Castañeda-Moya. 2022. Methane emissions from mangroves in the Everglades based on the eddy covariance measurements. 2022 FCE LTER All Scientists Meeting, Fairchild Tropical Garden, Coral Gables, Florida, March 2, 2022.

Richey, A., and S.L. Malone. 2022. Proposal: Salinity effect on carbon uptake rates in a low productivity saline ecotone wetland. 2022 FCE LTER All Scientists Meeting, Fairchild Tropical Garden, Coral Gables, Florida, March 2, 2022.

Wagner, H., M. Ramon, G. Perez, J. Quinones, A. da Costa da Silva, A. Bellantuono, S.L. Malone, and M. DeGennaro. 2022. Proposal: Addressing mosquito population dynamics in South Florida with geographic distribution and genomic variation analysis using a community-based mosquito surveillance program. 2022 FCE LTER All Scientists Meeting, Fairchild Tropical Garden, Coral Gables, Florida, March 2, 2022.