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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.

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.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.

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.

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.

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.

Wilson, Benjamin . 2018. Drivers and Mechanisms of Peat Collapse in Coastal Wetlands. Ph.D. dissertation, Florida International University.

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.

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.