Florida Coastal Everglades LTER - Personnel Profiles

Edward Castaneda

FCE Site Role
Project Collaborator

Affiliation
Department of Regulatory and Economic Resources, Environmental Resources Management (DERM), Miami-Dade County

Research
Nutrient cycling in mangrove forests, south Florida

FCE Working groups
Carbon Fluxes, Vegetation, Detritus & Microbes, Hydrologic Connectivity

Contact
- Mailing address:
- Department of Regulatory and Economic Resources, Environmental Resources Management (DERM)
- Overtown Transit Village
- 701 NW 1st Court, 5th floor
- Miami, FL 33136
- Email: Edward.Castaneda@miamidade.gov

FCE Publications (43)
Book Chapters
Davis, S.E., E. Castañeda-Moya, R. Boucek, R.M. Chambers, L. Collado-Vides, H.C. Fitz, J.D. Fuentes, E.E. Gaiser, M.R. Heithaus, J.S. Rehage, V.H. Rivera-Monroy, J.P. Sah, F.H. Sklar, and T. Troxler. 2019. Chapter 7: Exogenous Drivers - What has Disturbance Taught Us?, 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.

Rivera-Monroy, V.H., J. Cattelino, J. Wozniak, K.Z.S. Schwartz, G.B. Noe, E. Castañeda-Moya, G. Koch, J.N. Boyer, and S.E. Davis. 2019. Chapter 5: The Life of P: A Biogeochemical and Sociopolitical Challenge in the 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.

Twilley, R.R., V.H. Rivera-Monroy, A. Rovai, E. Castañeda-Moya, and S.E. Davis. 2019. Chapter 21 - Mangrove Biogeochemistry at Local to Global Scales using Ecogeomorphic Approaches, pp. 717-785 in Perillo, G.M.E., E. Wolanski, D.R. Cahoon and M.M. Brinson (eds.) Coastal Wetlands: An Integrated Ecosystem Approach. Elsevier.

Uchida, E., V.H. Rivera-Monroy, S.A. Ates, E. Castañeda-Moya, A. Gold, T. Guilfoos, M.F. Hernandez, R. Lokina, M.M. Mangora, S.R. Midway, C. McNally, M.J. Polito, M. Robertson, R.V. Rohli, H. Uchida, L. West, and X. Zhao. 2019. Collaborative Research Across Boundaries: Mangrove Ecosystem Services and Poverty Traps as a Coupled Natural-Human System, pp. 115-152 in Perz, S.G. (eds.) Collaboration Across Boundaries for Social-Ecological Systems Science. Palgrave Macmillan : Cham.

Twilley, R.R., E. Castañeda-Moya, V.H. Rivera-Monroy, and A. Rovai. 2017. Productivity and Carbon Dynamics in Mangrove Wetlands, pp. 113-162 in Rivera-Monroy, V.H., S.Y. Lee, E. Kristensen and R.R. Twilley (eds.) Mangrove Ecosystems: A Global Biogeographic Perspective Structure, Function and Services. Springer International Publishing : Cham, Switzerland.

Rivera-Monroy, V.H., E. Castañeda-Moya, J.G. Barr, V. Engel, J.D. Fuentes, T. Troxler, R.R. Twilley, S. Bouillon, T.J. Smith, and T.L. O'Halloran. 2013. Current Methods to Evaluate Net Primary Production and Carbon Budgets in Mangrove Forests, pp. 243-288 in Delaune, R.D., K.R. Reddy, P. Megonigal and C. Richardson (eds.) Methods in Biogeochemistry of Wetlands. Soil Science Society of America Book Series.
Journal Articles
Chavez, S., S. Wdowinski, D. Lagomasino, E. Castañeda-Moya, T.E. Fatoyinbo, R.P. Moyer, and J.M. Smoak. 2023. Estimating structural damage to mangrove forests using airborne Lidar imagery: Case study of damage induced by the 2017 Hurricane Irma to mangroves in the Florida Everglades, USA. Sensors 23: 6669.

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.

Xiong, L., D. Lagomasino, S.P. Charles, E. Castañeda-Moya, B. Cook, J. Redwine, and L. Fatoyinbo. 2022. Quantifying mangrove canopy regrowth and recovery after Hurricane Irma with large-scale repeat airborne lidar in the Florida Everglades. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 114: 103031.

Zhao, X., V.H. Rivera-Monroy, C. Li, I. Vargas-Lopez, R.V. Rohli, Z. Xue, E. Castañeda-Moya, and C. Coronado-Molina. 2022. Temperature across vegetation canopy-water-soil interfaces is modulated by hydroperiod and extreme weather in coastal wetlands. Frontiers in Marine Science 9: 52901.

Chambers, R.M., A. Gorsky, E. Castañeda-Moya, and V.H. Rivera-Monroy. 2021. Evaluating a steady-state model of soil accretion in Everglades mangroves (Florida, USA). Estuaries and Coasts 44: 1469–1476.

Lagomasino, D., T.E. Fatoyinbo, E. Castañeda-Moya, B. Cook, P. Montesano, C.S.R. Neigh, L.A. Corp, L.E. Ott, S. Chavez, and D.C. Morton. 2021. Storm surge and ponding explain mangrove dieback in southwest Florida following Hurricane Irma. Nature Communications 12: 4003 (2021).

Medina-Calderon, J.H., J.E. Mancera-Pineda, E. Castañeda-Moya, and V.H. Rivera-Monroy. 2021. Hydroperiod and salinity interactions control mangrove root dynamics in a karstic oceanic island in the Caribbean Sea (San Andres, Colombia). Frontiers in Marine Science 7: 598132.

Rastetter, E.B., M.D. Ohman, K.J. Elliott, J.S. Rehage, V.H. Rivera-Monroy, R. Boucek, E. Castañeda-Moya, T. Danielson, L. Gough, P.M. Groffman, C.R. Jackson, C.F. Miniat, and G.R. Shaver. 2021. Time lags: insights from the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network. Ecosphere 12: e03431.

Rovai, A., R.R. Twilley, E. Castañeda-Moya, S.R. Midway, D.A. Friess, C.C. Trettin, J.J. Bukoski, A.E.L. Stovall, P. Pagliosa, A.L. Fonseca, R.A. Mackenzie, A. Aslan, S.D. Sasmito, M. Sillanpaa, T.G. Cole, J. Purbopuspito, M.W. Warren, D. Murdiyarso, W. Mofu, S. Sharma, H.T. Pham, and P. Riul. 2021. Macroecological patterns of forest structure and allometric scaling in mangrove forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30: 1000-1013.

Zhao, X., V.H. Rivera-Monroy, L. Farfan, H.O. Briceno, E. Castañeda-Moya, R. Travieso, and E.E. Gaiser. 2021. Tropical cyclones cumulatively control regional carbon fluxes in Everglades mangrove wetlands (Florida, USA). Scientific Reports 11: 13927.

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.

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 101: e02988.

Zhao, X., V.H. Rivera-Monroy, H. Wang, Z. Xue, C. Tsai, C.S, Wilson, E. Castañeda-Moya, and R.R. Twilley. 2020. Modeling soil porewater salinity in mangrove forests (Everglades, Florida, USA) impacted by hydrological restoration and a warming climate. Ecological Modelling 436: 109292.

Marazzi, L., E.E. Gaiser, M.B. Eppinga, J.P. Sah, L. Zhai, E. Castañeda-Moya, and C. Angelini. 2019. Why do we need to document and conserve foundation species in freshwater wetlands? Water 11: 265.

Ribeiro, R.D.A., A. Rovai, R.R. Twilley, and E. Castañeda-Moya. 2019. Spatial variability of mangrove primary productivity in the neotropics. Ecosphere 10: e02841.

Rivera-Monroy, V.H., T. Danielson, E. Castañeda-Moya, B.D. Marx, R. Travieso, X. Zhao, E.E. Gaiser, and L. Farfan. 2019. Long-term demography and stem productivity of Everglades mangrove forests (Florida, USA): Resistance to hurricane disturbance. Forest Ecology and Management 440: 79-91.

Simard, M., L. Fatoyinbo, C. Smetanka, V.H. Rivera-Monroy, E. Castañeda-Moya, N. Thomas, and T. Van der Stocken. 2019. Mangrove canopy height globally related to precipitation, temperature and cyclone frequency. Nature Geoscience 12: 40-45.

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.

Dornelas, M. et al. 2018. BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27: 760-786.

Rovai, A., R.R. Twilley, E. Castañeda-Moya, P. Riul, M. Cifuentes-Jara, M. Manrow-Villalobos, P. Horta, J.C. Simonassi, A.L. Fonseca, and P. Pagliosa. 2018. Global controls on carbon storage in mangrove soils. Nature Climate Change 8: 534-538.

Breithaupt, J.L., J.M. Smoak, V.H. Rivera-Monroy, E. Castañeda-Moya, R.P. Moyer, M. Simard, and C.J. Sanders. 2017. Partitioning the relative contributions of organic matter and mineral sediment to accretion rates in carbonate platform mangrove soils. Marine Geology 390: 170-180.

Danielson, T., V.H. Rivera-Monroy, E. Castañeda-Moya, H.O. Briceno, R. Travieso, B.D. Marx, E.E. Gaiser, and L. Farfan. 2017. Assessment of Everglades mangrove forest resilience: Implications for above-ground net primary productivity and carbon dynamics. Forest Ecology and Management 404: 115-125.

Jerath, M., M. Bhat, V.H. Rivera-Monroy, E. Castañeda-Moya, M. Simard, and R.R. Twilley. 2016. The role of economic, policy, and ecological factors in estimating the value of carbon stocks in Everglades mangrove forests, South Florida, USA. Environmental Science and Policy Journal 66: 160-169.

Rovai, A., P. Riul, R.R. Twilley, E. Castañeda-Moya, V.H. Rivera-Monroy, A.A. Williams, M. Simard, M. Cifuentes-Jara, R. Lewis, S. Crooks, P. Horta, Y. Schaeffer-Novelli, G. Cintron, M. Pozo-Cajas, and P. Pagliosa. 2016. Scaling mangrove aboveground biomass from site-level to continental-scale. Global Ecology and Biogeography 25: 286-298.

Gaiser, E.E., E.P. Anderson, E. Castañeda-Moya, L. Collado-Vides, J.W. Fourqurean, M.R. Heithaus, R. Jaffe, D. Lagomasino, N. Oehm, R.M. Price, V.H. Rivera-Monroy, R. Roy Chowdhury, and T. Troxler. 2015. New perspectives on an iconic landscape from comparative international long-term ecological research. Ecosphere 6: art181.

Castañeda-Moya, E., R.R. Twilley, and V.H. Rivera-Monroy. 2013. Allocation of biomass and net primary productivity of mangrove forests along environmental gradients in the Florida Coastal Everglades, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 307: 226-241.

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.

Castañeda-Moya, E., R.R. Twilley, V.H. Rivera-Monroy, B.D. Marx, C. Coronado-Molina, and S.M.L. Ewe. 2011. Patterns of root dynamics in mangrove forests along environmental gradients in the Florida Coastal Everglades, USA. Ecosystems 14: 1178-1195.

Rivera-Monroy, V.H., R.R. Twilley, J.E. Mancera-Pineda, C.J. Madden, A. Alcantara-Eguren, E.B. Moser, B.F. Jonsson, E. Castañeda-Moya, O. Casas-Monroy, P. Reyes-Forero, and J. Restrepo. 2011. Salinity and chlorophyll a as performance measures to rehabilitate a mangrove-dominated deltaic coastal region: the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta-Pajarales Lagoon Complex, Colombia. Estuaries and Coasts 34: 1-19.

Rivera-Monroy, V.H., R.R. Twilley, S.E. Davis, D.L. Childers, M. Simard, R.M. Chambers, R. Jaffe, J.N. Boyer, D.T. Rudnick, K. Zhang, E. Castañeda-Moya, S.M.L. Ewe, R.M. Price, C. Coronado-Molina, M.S. Ross, T.J. Smith, B. Michot, E. Meselhe, W.K. Nuttle, T. Troxler, and G.B. Noe. 2011. The role of the Everglades Mangrove Ecotone Region (EMER) in regulating nutrient cycling and wetland productivity in south Florida. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology 41: 633-669.

Castañeda-Moya, E., R.R. Twilley, V.H. Rivera-Monroy, K. Zhang, S.E. Davis, and M.S. Ross. 2010. Sediment and nutrient deposition associated with Hurricane Wilma in mangroves of the Florida Coastal Everglades. Estuaries and Coasts 33: 45-58.

Bouillon, S., A.V. Borges, E. Castañeda, K. Diele, T. Dittmar, N.C. Duke, E. Kristensen, S.Y. Lee, C. Marchand, J.J. Middelburg, V.H. Rivera-Monroy, R.R. Twilley, and T.J. Smith. 2008. Mangrove production and carbon sinks: A revision of global budget estimates. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 22: GB2013.

Rivera-Monroy, V.H., K. de Mutsert, R.R. Twilley, E. Castañeda-Moya, M.M. Romigh, and S.E. Davis. 2007. Patterns of nutrient exchange in a riverine mangrove forest in the Shark River Estuary, Florida, USA. Hidrobiológica 17: 169-178.

Rivera-Monroy, V.H., R.R. Twilley, J.E. Mancera, A. Alcantara-Eguren, E. Castañeda-Moya,Casas O. Monroy, P. Reyes, J. Restrepo, L. Perdomo, E. Campos, G. Cotes, and E. Villoria. 2007. Adventures and misfortunes in Macondo: Rehabilitation of the Cienaga Grande. Ecotropicos 19: 72-93.

Simard, M., K. Zhang, V.H. Rivera-Monroy, M.S. Ross, P.L. Ruiz, E. Castañeda-Moya, R.R. Twilley, and E. Rodriguez. 2006. Mapping height and biomass of mangrove forests in Everglades National Park with SRTM elevation data. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 72: 299-311.
Ph.D. Dissertations
Castañeda, Edward . 2010. Landscape patterns of community structure, biomass and net primary productivity of mangrove forests in the Florida Coastal Everglades as a function of resources, regulators, hydroperiod, and hurricane disturbance. Ph.D. dissertation, Louisiana State University.

Datasets (10)
FCE Datasets
Mangrove Forest Growth from the Shark River Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE), South Florida, USA, January 1995 - ongoing
Creators: Castaneda, Edward; Rivera-Monroy, Victor; Twilley, Robert;

Mangrove Soil Chemistry Shark River Slough and Taylor Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE), from December 2000 to May 23, 2002
Creators: Castaneda, Edward; Rivera-Monroy, Victor; Twilley, Robert;

Water Levels and Porewater Temperature data from the Shark River and Taylor River Slough mangrove sites, Everglades National Park (FCE LTER), South Florida, USA: May 2001 - ongoing
Creators: Castaneda, Edward; Rivera-Monroy, Victor;

Abiotic monitoring of physical characteristics in porewaters and surface waters of mangrove forests from the Shark River Slough and Taylor Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE LTER), South Florida, USA, December 2000 - ongoing
Creators: Castaneda, Edward; Rivera-Monroy, Victor;

Monitoring of nutrient and sulfide concentrations in porewaters of mangrove forests from the Shark River Slough and Taylor Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE LTER), Florida, USA, December 2000 - ongoing
Creators: Castaneda, Edward; Rivera-Monroy, Victor; Twilley, Robert;

Mangrove Litterfall from the Shark River Slough and Taylor Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE), South Florida, USA, January 2001 - ongoing
Creators: Castaneda, Edward; Rivera-Monroy, Victor; Twilley, Robert;

Sediment and nutrient deposition and plant-soil phosphorus interactions associated with Hurricane Irma (2017) in mangroves of the Florida Coastal Everglades (FCE LTER), Florida
Creators: Castaneda, Edward; Rivera-Monroy, Victor;

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;

Inventory of Eddy Covariance Tower Data in AmeriFlux from Everglades Towers, Florida: 2004-ongoing
Creators: Malone, Sparkle; Troxler, Tiffany; Castaneda, Edward; Oberbauer, Steven; Starr, Gregory; Fourqurean, James;

Recent FCE Leveraged Projects

Mangrove Resilience to Hurricane Disturbances
Authors: Castañeda-Moya, E., J. Kominoski, J.P. Sah, T. Troxler
Funding organization: National Park Service - Department of the Interior
Time period: 01 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2025

Hurricane Irma effects on Florida Everglades mangroves: Assessment of resilience and trajectories of recovery
Authors: Castañeda-Moya, E., D. Lagomasino, J. Kominoski, J.P. Sah, T. Troxler
Funding organization: National Park Service - Department of the Interior
Time period: 16 Apr 2020 - 30 Sep 2023

Direct measurement of Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE) in coastal mangroves of Everglades National Park
Authors: Troxler, T., S. Oberbauer, E. Castañeda-Moya
Funding organization: National Park Service - Department of the Interior
Time period: 01 Jul 2017 - 01 Sep 2023

Monitoring for potential water quality impacts along the Eastern Boundary of Everglades National Park, including Taylor Slough
Authors: E. Castañeda-Moya
Funding organization: Everglades National Park
Time period: 01 May 2021 - 01 Sep 2022

Ecological monitoring of southern Everglades wetlands, mangrove transition zone and "white zone" interactions with Florida Bay
Authors: Troxler, T., E. Castañeda
Funding organization: South Florida Water Management District
Time period: 01 Sep 2016 - 01 Dec 2021

Recent FCE Presentations
Castañeda-Moya, E., V.H. Rivera-Monroy, E. Solohin, and X. Zhao. 2023. Post-hurricane recovery of mangrove forest development in the Florida Coastal Everglades. Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) Conference, Portland, Oregon, November 15, 2023.

Castañeda-Moya, E., D. Lagomasino, J. Kominoski, T. Troxler, and J.P. Sah. 2023. Effects of Hurricane Irma on mangrove forest structure in the Florida Everglades, USA. Second Mangrove Congress of America, Merida, Mexico, October 10, 2023 - October 24, 2023.

Castañeda-Moya, E., D. Lagomasino, J. Kominoski, T. Troxler, and J.P. Sah. 2023. Hurricane Irma effects on mangrove forest structure in the Florida Everglades, USA. Mangrove Macrobenthos and Management Conference (MMM6), Cartagena, Colombia, July 24, 2023 - July 28, 2023.

Castañeda-Moya, E., V.H. Rivera-Monroy, X. Zhao, and E. Solohin. 2023. Hurricane impacts on structural development and carbon dynamics in riverine mangroves of the Florida Everglades. Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration (GEER) Meeting, Coral Springs, Florida, April 19, 2023.

Restrepo, V., E. Castañeda-Moya, J. Kominoski, and E. Solohin. 2023. Quantifying post-hurricane regeneration of mangrove species along phosphorus fertility gradients in the Florida Coastal 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.

Restrepo, V., E. Castañeda-Moya, and J. Kominoski. 2023. Quantifying post-hurricane regeneration of mangrove species along phosphorus fertility gradients in the Florida Coastal Everglades. 2023 FCE LTER All Scientists Meeting, Fairchild Tropical Garden, Coral Gables, Florida, February 27, 2023.

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