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Personnel Profiles

Luke Lamb-Wotton

FCE Site Role
Ph.D. Student

Advisor
Dr. Tiffany Troxler

Affiliation
Florida International University

Research
Broad scale landscape disturbance; biogeochemistry; carbon dynamics

FCE Working groups
Carbon Fluxes

Contact
- Mailing address:
- Department of Biological Sciences
- Florida International University
- 11200 SW 8th St.
- Miami, FL 33199
- Email: llamb009@fiu.edu

FCE Publications (5)
Journal Articles
Hogan, J.A., E. Castañeda-Moya, L. Lamb-Wotton, T. Troxler, and C. Baraloto. 2022. Water levels primarily drive variation in photosynthesis and nutrient use of scrub Red Mangroves in the southeastern Florida Everglades. Tree Physiology 42: 797-814.

Ishtiaq, K., T. Troxler, L. Lamb-Wotton, B.J. Wilson, S.P. Charles, S.E. Davis, J. Kominoski, D.T. Rudnick, and F.H. Sklar. 2022. Modeling net ecosystem carbon balance and loss in coastal wetlands exposed to sea-level rise and saltwater intrusion. Ecological Applications 32: e2702.

Lamb, L.M., D. Gann, J. Velazquez, and T. Troxler. 2022. Detecting vegetation to open water transitions in a subtropical wetland landscape from historical panchromatic aerial photography and multispectral satellite imagery. Remote Sensing 14: 3976.

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.
Ph.D. Dissertations
Lamb-Wotton, Lukas . 2024. Multi-scale evaluation of coastal marsh loss in the Florida Everglades. Ph.D. dissertation, Florida International University.

Datasets (5)
FCE Datasets
FCE LTER Taylor Slough/Panhandle-7 Site Scrub Red Mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) Leaf Gas Exchange Data, Florida, USA from January-December 2019
Creators: Hogan, James A; Castaneda, Edward; Lamb-Wotton, Lukas;

The dataset and model code pertinent to the Everglades Peat Elevation Model (EvPEM): The salinity and inundation mesocosm experiment in freshwater and brackish water sawgrass wetlands in Florida Coastal Everglades (2015-2017).
Creators: Troxler, Tiffany; Ishtiaq, Khandker; Kominoski, John; Wilson, Benjamin; Lukas Lamb-Wotton;

Identifying the drivers and responses of abrupt changes across spatial and temporal scales in ecology: a review
Creators: Lamb-Wotton, Lukas; Flowers, Kathryn; Anderson, Kenneth; Flood, Peter; Esch, Melanie; Kochan, David; Kominoski, John S.;

A database of soil type and soil depth across Everglades National Park, Florida, USA
Creators: Lamb-Wotton, Lukas; Troxler, Tiffany; Davis, Stephen;

Field survey and long-term measurements of biological, geomorphic, and hydrologic properties across ecosystem states in a non-tidal, salinizing peat marsh in Everglades National Park, Florida, USA, June 2018 - ongoing
Creators: Lamb-Wotton, Lukas M.; Troxler, Tiffany G.;

Recent FCE Leveraged Projects

ForEverglades Scholarship
Authors: Lamb-Wotton, L.
Funding organization: Everglades Foundation
Time period: 01 Oct 2021 - 30 Sep 2022

Using fine-scale variation in ecosystem properties to detect peat collapse in the Florida Coastal Everglades
Authors: Lamb-Wotton, L.
Funding organization: Everglades Foundation
Time period: 01 Jan 2019 - 01 Jan 2020

Recent FCE Presentations
Lamb-Wotton, L., T. Troxler, C. Coronado-Molina, and S.E. Davis. 2023. Hydrogeomorphic condition indicates alternate stable states in a non-tidal, brackish marsh of the Florida Coastal Everglades. Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) Conference, Portland, Oregon, November 14, 2023.

Lamb-Wotton, L.. 2023. Assessing vulnerability of Everglades coastal peat marsh: A framework for local-to-regional scale evaluation. Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration (GEER) Meeting, Coral Springs, Florida, April 19, 2023.

Lamb, L.M., D. Gann, J. Velazquez, and T. Troxler. 2023. Detecting vegetation to open water transitions in a subtropical wetland landscape from historical panchromatic aerial photography and multi-spectral satellite imagery. 2023 FCE LTER All Scientists Meeting, Fairchild Tropical Garden, Coral Gables, Florida, February 27, 2023.