Personnel Profiles

• Mailing address:
• Southeast Environmental Research Center
• Florida International University
• 11200 SW 8th St, OE 148
• Miami, FL 33199
• Email: sahj@fiu.edu

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

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

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

Sah, J.P., P.L. Ruiz and M.S. Ross. 2018. Spatio-temporal pattern of plant communities along a hydrologic gradient in Everglades tree islands. Forest Ecology and Management 421: 16-31

Wetzel, P., J.P. Sah and M.S. Ross. 2017. Tree islands: the bellwether of Everglades ecosystem function and restoration success. Restoration Ecology 25: S71-S85

Ross, M.S., J.P. Sah, P.L. Ruiz, A.A. Spitzig and S.C. Subedi. 2016. Inferring implications of climate change in south Florida hardwood hammocks through analysis of metacommunity structure. Diversity and Distributions 22: 783-796

Sullivan, P., R.M. Price, M. Wilson, S. Stoffella, J.P. Sah, L.J. Scinto, E. Cline, T.W. Dreschel and F.H. Sklar. 2016. Trees: a powerful geomorphic agent governing the landscape evolution of a subtropical wetland. Biogeochemistry 128: 369-384

Ross, M.S., J.P. Sah, J.F. Meeder, P.L. Ruiz and G.J. Telesnicki. 2014. Compositional Effects of Sea-Level Rise in a Patchy Landscape: The Dynamics of Tree Islands in the Southeastern Coastal Everglades. Wetlands 34: 91-100

Sah, J.P., M.S. Ross, S. Saha, P.R. Minchin and J. Sadle. 2014. Trajectories of Vegetation Response to Water Management in Taylor Slough, Everglades National Park, Florida. Wetlands 34: 65-79

Ruiz, P.L., J.P. Sah, M.S. Ross and A.A. Spitzig. 2013. Tree island response to fire and flooding in the short-hydroperiod marl prairie grasslands of the Florida Everglades. Fire Ecology 9: 38-54

Clement, B., J. Javier, J.P. Sah and M.S. Ross. 2011. The effects of wildfires on the magnetic properties of soils in the Everglades. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 36: 460-466

Espinar, J.L., M.S. Ross and J.P. Sah. 2011. Pattern of nutrient availability and plant community assemblage in Everglades Tree Islands, Florida, USA. Hydrobiologia 667: 89-99

Ross, M.S. and J.P. Sah. 2011. Forest resource islands in a sub-tropical marsh: soil-site relationships in Everglades hardwood hammocks. Ecosystems 14: 632-645

Hanan, E., M.S. Ross, P.L. Ruiz and J.P. Sah. 2010. Multi-scaled grassland-woody plant dynamics in the heterogeneous marl prairies of the southern Everglades. Ecosystems 13: 1256-1274

Ross, M.S., D.E. Ogurcak, J.P. Sah and P.L. Ruiz. 2010. Using Florida Keys Reference Sites As a Standard for Restoration of Forest Structure in Everglades Tree Islands. International Journal of Forestry Research 2010: 8 pages

Stoffella, S., M.S. Ross, J.P. Sah, R.M. Price, P. Sullivan, E. Cline and L.J. Scinto. 2010. Survival and growth responses of eight Everglades tree species along an experimental hydrological gradient on two tree island types. Applied Vegetation Science 13: 439-449

Ross, M.S., P.L. Ruiz, J.P. Sah and E. Hanan. 2009. Chilling damage in a changing climate in coastal landscapes of the sub-tropical zone: a case study from south Florida. Global Change Biology 15: 1817-1832

Armentano, T.V., J.P. Sah, M.S. Ross, D.T. Jones, H.C. Cooley and C.S. Smith. 2006. Rapid responses of vegetation to hydrological changes in Taylor Slough, Everglades National Park, Florida, USA. Hydrobiologia 569: 293-309

Ross, M.S., S. Mitchell-Bruker, J.P. Sah, S. Stothoff, P.L. Ruiz, D.R. Reed, K. Jayachandran and C.L. Coultas. 2006. Interaction of hydrology and nutrient limitation in the ridge and slough landscape of the southern Everglades. Hydrobiologia 569: 37-59

Lockwood, J.L., M.S. Ross and J.P. Sah. 2003. Smoke on the water: the interplay of fire and water flow on Everglades restoration. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 1: 462-468

Ross, M.S., D.R. Reed, J.P. Sah, P.L. Ruiz and M. Lewin. 2003. Vegetation:environment relationships and water management in Shark Slough, Everglades National Park. Wetlands Ecology and Management 11: 291-303

Sah, J.P.. 2019. Overstory-understory interactions along flooding gradients in everglades tree islands. Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration Meeting, Coral Springs, Florida, April 23, 2019.

Marazzi, L., M.B. Eppinga, C. Angelini, E. Castañeda-Moya, E.E. Gaiser, J.P. Sah and L. Zhai. 2019. Why do we need to document and conserve foundation species in oligotrophic wetlands? ASLO 2019 Aquatic Sciences Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, February 25, 2019.