Research Sites

SRS-1b Site

• Description and Location
  Site status:

  Inactive
  (Active from March 2000 to January 2005)

  Latitude, longitude:

  25.75776827, -80.72558792

  Site size:

  Approx. 0.25 ha

  Watershed:

  Shark River Slough

  
  

  Hydrography:

  Seasonally driven sheetflow

  Topography:

  Flat, with ridge and slough microtopography

  Geology:

  Limestone bedrock

  Soil:

  Wetland peat, X 1m thick

  Vegetation:

  Sawgrass dominated marsh interspersed with Eleocharis/Panicum slough

  Habitat:

  Freshwater wetland

  Climatology:

  Subtropical moist, with distinctive wet (June-Nov.) and dry (Dec-May) seasons

• Photos

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• Data sets

  Data sets

  FCE Datasets
  

  Water Quality Data (Porewater) from the Shark River Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE LTER), Florida, USA, January 2001 - ongoing
  Creators: Gaiser, Evelyn; Childers, Daniel; Travieso, Rafael;

  Sawgrass Above and Below Ground Total Nitrogen and Total Carbon from the Shark River Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE LTER), Florida, USA, September 2002 - ongoing
  Creators: Gaiser, Evelyn; Childers, Daniel; Travieso, Rafael;

  Sawgrass Above and Below Ground Total Phosphorus from the Shark River Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE LTER), Florida, USA, September 2002 - ongoing
  Creators: Gaiser, Evelyn; Childers, Daniel; Travieso, Rafael;

  Sawgrass above ground biomass from the Shark River Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE LTER), South Florida, USA, November 2000 - ongoing
  Creators: Gaiser, Evelyn; Childers, Daniel; Travieso, Rafael;

  Soil Physical Data from the Shark River Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE), from November 2000 to January 2007
  Creators: Troxler, Tiffany; Childers, Daniel;

  Soil Characteristics and Nutrient Data from the Shark River Slough, within Everglades National Park (FCE), from March 2003 to March 2004
  Creators: Troxler, Tiffany; Childers, Daniel;

  Physical and Chemical Characteristics of Soil Sediments from the Shark River Slough and Taylor Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE LTER), Florida, USA, August 2004 - ongoing
  Creators: Chambers, Randy; Russell, Timothy; Gorsky, Adrianna;

  Bulk Parameters for Soils/Sediments from the Shark River Slough and Taylor Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE), from October 2000 to January 2001
  Creators: Mead, Ralph;

• Publications

  Publications

  Journal Articles

  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

  Julian, P., R.M. Chambers, and T. Russell. 2017. Iron and pyritization in wetland soils of the Florida Coastal Everglades. Estuaries and Coasts 40: 822-831

  Long, S.A., G.I. Tachiev, R. Fennema, A.M. Cook, M. Sukop, and F. Miralles-Wilhelm. 2015. Modeling the impact of restoration efforts on phosphorus loading and transport through Everglades National Park, FL, USA. Science of The Total Environment 520: 81-95

  Chambers, R.M., and K.A. Pederson. 2006. Variation in soil phosphorus, sulfur, and iron pools among south Florida wetlands. Hydrobiologia 569: 63-70

  Childers, D.L., R.F. Doren, G.B. Noe, M. Rugge, and L.J. Scinto. 2003. Decadal change in vegetation and soil phosphorus patterns across the Everglades landscape. Journal of Environmental Quality 32: 344-362