Research Sites

SRS-2 Site

• Description and Location
  Site status:

  Active
  (Active from March 2000 to present)

  Latitude, longitude:

  25.54972811, -80.78520692

  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

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• Data sets

  Data sets

  FCE Datasets
  

  Microbial Sampling from Shark River Slough and Taylor Slough, Everglades National Park, South Florida, USA (FCE LTER), January 2001 - ongoing
  Creators: Briceno, Henry;

  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;

  Water Quality Data (Extensive) from the Shark River Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE LTER), Florida, USA, October 2000 - ongoing
  Creators: Gaiser, Evelyn; Childers, Daniel; Travieso, Rafael;

  Water Quality Data (Grab Samples) from the Shark River Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE LTER), Florida, USA, May 2001 - 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;

  Precipitation from the Shark River Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE LTER), South Florida, USA, November 2000 - ongoing
  Creators: Price, Rene; Childers, Daniel;

  Water Depths and Water Temperatures near Soil Surface from Shark River Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE LTER), Florida, USA, October 2000 - ongoing
  Creators: Kominoski, John; Price, Rene; Childers, Daniel;

  Monthly monitoring of Fluorescence, UV, Humic and non-Humic Carbon, Carbohydrates, and DOC for Shark River Slough, Taylor Slough, and Florida Bay, Everglades National Park (FCE LTER) for January 2002 to August 2004
  Creators: Jaffe, Rudolf;

  Examination of protein-like fluorophores in chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) in a wetland and coastal environment for the wet and dry seasons of the years 2002 and 2003 (FCE)
  Creators: Jaffe, Rudolf;

  Periphyton Productivity from the Shark River Slough and Taylor Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE LTER), South Florida, USA, October 2001 - ongoing
  Creators: Gaiser, Evelyn; Tobias, Franco;

  Periphyton Accumulation Rates from Shark River Slough, Taylor Slough and Florida Bay, Everglades National Park (FCE LTER), South Florida, USA, January 2001 - ongoing
  Creators: Gaiser, Evelyn; Tobias, Franco;

  Periphyton Biomass Accumulation from the Shark River and Taylor Sloughs, Everglades National Park (FCE LTER), South Florida, USA, January 2003 - ongoing
  Creators: Gaiser, Evelyn; Tobias, Franco;

  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;

  Macrofossil Characteristics of Soil from Shark River Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE) from July 2003 to February 2006
  Creators: Saunders, Colin;

  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;

  Monthly monitoring fluorescence data for Shark River Slough and Taylor Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE) for October 2004 to February 2014
  Creators: Jaffe, Rudolf;

  Percentage of Carbon and Nitrogen of Soil Sediments from the Shark River Slough, Taylor Slough and Florida Bay within Everglades National Park (FCE LTER), Florida, USA, August 2008 - ongoing
  Creators: Chambers, Randy; Russell, Timothy; Hatch, Rosemary; Katsaros, Dean; Gorsky, Adrianna;

  Biomarker assessment of spatial and temporal changes in the composition of flocculent material (floc) in the subtropical wetland of the Florida Coastal Everglades (FCE) from May 2007 to December 2009
  Creators: Jaffe, Rudolf; Pisani, Oliva;

  Monthly monitoring fluorescence data for Shark River Slough and Taylor Slough, Everglades National Park, Florida, USA (FCE LTER) for 2012 - 2020
  Creators: Kominoski, John Stephen;

  Decomposition rates of four litter types along coastal gradients in Everglades National Park (FCE LTER), Florida, USA: 2020-2021
  Creators: Anderson, Kenneth J; Kominoski, John S;

  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;

• Publications

  Publications

  Journal Articles

  Anderson, K.J., J. Kominoski, C.J. Choi, and U. Stingl. 2024. Functional effects of subsidies and stressors on benthic microbial communities along freshwater to marine gradients. Ecology : e4427

  Julian, P., J.W. Fourqurean, S.E. Davis, D.D. Surratt, E.E. Gaiser, J. Kominoski, T. Troxler, J.N. Boyer, S.E. Thomas, H.O. Briceno, C.J. Madden, E. Montes, and C.R. Kelble. 2024. Long-term patterns and trends in water column biogeochemistry in a changing environment. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 306: 108896

  Zhao, J., S. Chakrabarti, R.M. Chambers, P. Weisenhorn, R. Travieso, S. Stumpf, E. Standen, H.O. Briceno, T. Troxler, E.E. Gaiser, B. Dhillon, J. Kominoski, and W. Martens-Habbena. 2023. Year-around survey and manipulation experiments reveal differential sensitivities of soil prokaryotic and fungal communities to saltwater intrusion in Florida Everglades wetlands. Science of The Total Environment 858: 159865

  Laas, P., K. Ugarelli, R. Travieso, S. Stumpf, E.E. Gaiser, J. Kominoski, and U. Stingl. 2022. Water column microbial communities vary along salinity gradients in the Florida Coastal Everglades wetlands. Microorganisms 10: 215

  Staudhammer, C.L., S.L. Malone, J. Zhao, Z. Yu, G. Starr, and S. Oberbauer. 2022. Methane emissions from subtropical wetlands: An evaluation of the role of data filtering on annual methane budgets. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 321: 108972

  He, D., S.N. Ladd, C.J. Saunders, R.N. Mead, and R. Jaffe. 2020. Distribution of n-alkanes and their d2H and d13C values in typical plants along a terrestrial-coastal-oceanic gradient. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 281: 31-52

  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

  Dessu, S.B., R.M. Price, T. Troxler, and J. Kominoski. 2018. Effects of sea-level rise and freshwater management on long-term water levels and water quality in the Florida Coastal Everglades. Journal of Environmental Management 211: 164-176

  He, D., B.R.T. Simoneit, and R. Jaffe. 2018. Environmental factors controlling the distributions of Botryococcus braunii (A, B and L) biomarkers in a subtropical freshwater wetland. Scientific Reports 8: 8626

  Marazzi, L., and E.E. Gaiser. 2018. Long-term changes in spatially structured benthic diatom assemblages in a major subtropical wetland under restoration. Inland Waters 8: 434-448

  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

  McKay, G., W. Huang, C. Romera-Castillo, J. Crouch, F. Rosario-Ortiz, and R. Jaffe. 2017. Predicting reactive intermediate quantum yields from dissolved organic matter photolysis using optical properties and antioxidant capacity. Environmental Science & Technology 51: 5404-5413

  He, D., B.R.T. Simoneit, Y. Xu, and R. Jaffe. 2016. Occurrence of unsaturated C25 highly branched isoprenoids (HBIs) in a freshwater wetland. Organic Geochemistry 93: 59-67

  Malone, S.L., J.G. Barr, J.D. Fuentes, S. Oberbauer, E.E. Gaiser, and G. Starr. 2016. Sensitivity to low-temperature events: Implications for CO2 dynamics in subtropical coastal ecosystems. Wetlands 36: 957-967

  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

  Pisani, O., L.J. Scinto, J. Munyon, and R. Jaffe. 2015. The respiration of flocculent detrital organic matter (floc) is driven by phosphorus limitation and substrate quality in a subtropical wetland. Geoderma 241: 272-278

  Romera-Castillo, C., and R. Jaffe. 2015. Free radical scavenging (antioxidant activity) of natural dissolved organic matter. Marine Chemistry 177: 668-676

  Wagner, S., R. Jaffe, K.M. Cawley, T. Dittmar, and A. Stubbins. 2015. Associations between the molecular and optical properties of dissolved organic matter in the Florida Everglades: a model coastal wetland system. Frontiers in Chemistry 3: 66

  Wagner, S., T. Dittmar, and R. Jaffe. 2015. Molecular characterization of dissolved black nitrogen by electrospray ionization Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry. Organic Geochemistry 79: 21-30

  He, D., B.R.T. Simoneit, B. Jara, and R. Jaffe. 2014. Occurrence and distribution of monomethylalkanes in the freshwater wetland ecosystem of the Florida Everglades. Chemosphere 119: 258-266

  Jaffe, R., Y. Ding, J. Niggemann, A. Vahatalo, A. Stubbins, R.G.M. Spencer, J.L. Campbell, and T. Dittmar. 2013. Global charcoal mobilization from soils via dissolution and riverine transport to the oceans. Science 340: 345-347

  Sanchez, C., E.E. Gaiser, C.J. Saunders, A. Wachnicka, and N. Oehm. 2013. Challenges in using siliceous subfossils as a tool for inferring past water level and hydroperiod in Everglades marshes. Journal of Paleolimnology 49: 45-66

  Jimenez, K.L., G. Starr, C.L. Staudhammer, J. Schedlbauer, H. Loescher, S.L. Malone, and S. Oberbauer. 2012. Carbon dioxide exchange rates from short- and long-hydroperiod Everglades freshwater marsh. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences 117: G04009

  Schedlbauer, J., J. Munyon, S. Oberbauer, E.E. Gaiser, and G. Starr. 2012. Controls on ecosystem carbon dioxide exchange in short- and long-hydroperiod Florida Everglades freshwater marshes. Wetlands 32: 801-812

  Fell, J.W., A. Statzell-Tallman, G. Scorzetti, and M.H. Gutierrez. 2011. Five new species of yeasts from fresh water and marine habitats in the Florida Everglades. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 99: 533-549

  Pisani, O., Y. Yamashita, and R. Jaffe. 2011. Photo-dissolution of flocculent, detrital material in aquatic environments: Contributions to the dissolved organic matter pool. Water Research 45: 3836-3844

  Ikenaga, M., R. Guevara, C. Pisani, A. Dean, and J.N. Boyer. 2010. Changes in community structure of sediment bacteria along the Florida Coastal Everglades marsh-mangrove-seagrass salinity gradient . Microbial Ecology 59: 284-295

  Xu, Y., and R. Jaffe. 2010. Occurrence, distribution and origin of C30 cyclobotryococcenes in a subtropical wetland/estuarine ecosystem. Chemosphere 81: 918-924

  Gao, M., B.R.T. Simoneit, M. Gantar, and R. Jaffe. 2007. Occurrence and distribution of novel botryococcene hydrocarbons in freshwater wetlands of the Florida Everglades. Chemosphere 70: 224-236

  Maie, N., N.M. Scully, O. Pisani, and R. Jaffe. 2007. Composition of a protein-like fluorophore of dissolved organic matter in coastal wetland and estuarine ecosystems. Water Research 41: 563-570

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

  Hajje, N., and R. Jaffe. 2006. Molecular characterization of Cladium peat from the Florida Everglades: biomarker associations with humic fractions. Hydrobiologia 569: 99-112

  Noe, G.B., L.J. Scinto, J. Taylor, D.L. Childers, and R.D. Jones. 2003. Phosphorus cycling and partitioning in an oligotrophic Everglades wetland ecosystem: a radioisotope tracing study. Freshwater Biology 48: 1993-2008

  Master's Theses

  Pokharel, Shiva . 2014. Analysis of land use change as a method of predicting water demands in an urbanizing Environment: Redland, Miami-Dade County, Florida. Master's thesis, Florida International University