Research Sites

SRS-5 Site

• Description and Location
  Site alias:

  Gunboat Island

  Site status:

  Active
  (Active from March 2000 to present)

  Latitude, longitude:

  25.37702258, -81.03234716

  Site size:

  Approx. 1 ha

  Watershed:

  Shark River Slough

  
  

  Hydrography:

  Seasonally driven freshwater inputs and tidally driven oceanic inputs

  Topography:

  Flat, with tidal creek topography

  Geology:

  Limestone bedrock

  Soil:

  Wetland peat, > 1 m thick

  Vegetation:

  Mangrove forest

  Habitat:

  Mangrove wetland, intermediate stature

  Climatology:

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

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• Data sets

  Data sets

  FCE Datasets
  

  Surface Water Quality Monitoring Data collected in South Florida Coastal Waters (FCE LTER), Florida, USA, June 1989-ongoing
  Creators: Briceno, Henry;

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

  Large consumer isotope values, Shark River Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE LTER), Florida, USA, May 2005 - ongoing
  Creators: Heithaus, Michael; Matich, Philip; Rosenblatt, Adam;

  Overnight Shark River Surveys from Shark River Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE), South Florida from October 2001 to March 2002
  Creators: Boyer, Joseph; Dailey, Susan;

  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;

  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;

  Monthly monitoring fluorescence data for Florida Bay, Ten Thousand Islands, and Whitewater Bay, in southwest coast of Everglades National Park (FCE) for February 2001 to December 2002
  Creators: Jaffe, Rudolf;

  Mangrove Forest Growth from the Shark River Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE), South Florida, USA, January 1995 - ongoing
  Creators: Castañeda-Moya, 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;

  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;

  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: Kominoski, John; Castañeda-Moya, Edward; Rivera-Monroy, Victor; Reisa, Caitlin;

  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: Kominoski, John; Castañeda-Moya, Edward; Rivera-Monroy, Victor; Twilley, Robert; Reisa, Caitlin;

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

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

  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;

  Fluxes of dissolved organic carbon from the Shark River Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE), South Florida from May 2001 to September 2014
  Creators: Regier, Peter; Jaffé, Rudolf;

  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;

• Publications

  Publications

  Journal Articles

  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

  He, D., S.N. Ladd, J. Park, J.P. Sachs, B.R.T. Simoneit, J.M. Smoak, and R. Jaffe. 2022. Carbon and hydrogen isotopes of taraxerol in mangrove leaves and sediment cores: implications for paleo-reconstructions. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 324: 262-279

  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

  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

  He, D., V.H. Rivera-Monroy, R. Jaffe, and X. Zhao. 2021. Mangrove leaf species-specific isotopic signatures along a salinity and phosphorus soil fertility gradients in a subtropical estuary. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 248: 106768

  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

  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

  Rezek, R., J. Massie, J. Nelson, R.O. Santos, N. Viadero, R. Boucek, and J.S. Rehage. 2020. Individual consumer movement mediates food web coupling across a coastal ecosystem . Ecosphere 11: e03305

  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

  Breithaupt, J.L., J.M. Smoak, C.J. Sanders, and T. Troxler. 2019. Spatial variability of organic carbon, CaCO3 and nutrient burial rates spanning a mangrove productivity gradient in the coastal Everglades. Ecosystems 22: 844-858

  Regier, P., H.O. Briceno, and J.N. Boyer. 2019. Analyzing and comparing complex environmental time series using a cumulative sums approach. MethodsX 6: 779-787

  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

  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, J. Cloutier, and R. Jaffe. 2018. Early diagenesis of triterpenoids derived from mangroves in a subtropical estuary. Organic Geochemistry 125: 196-211

  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

  Feliciano, E.A., S. Wdowinski, M. Potts, S.-K. Lee, and T.E. Fatoyinbo. 2017. Estimating mangrove canopy height and above-ground biomass in the Everglades National Park with airborne LiDAR and TanDEM-X data. Remote Sensing 9: 702

  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

  Yao, Q., and K.B. Liu. 2017. Dynamics of marsh-mangrove ecotone since the mid-Holocene: A palynological study of mangrove encroachment and sea level rise in the Shark River Estuary, Florida. PLoS ONE 12: e0173670

  Boucek, R., M. Soula, F. Tamayo, and J.S. Rehage. 2016. A once in ten year drought alters the magnitude and quality of a floodplain trophic subsidy to coastal river fishes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 73: 1672-1678

  Chen, M., and R. Jaffe. 2016. Quantitative assessment of photo- and bio-reactivity of chromophoric and fluorescent dissolved organic matter from biomass and soil leachates and from surface waters in a subtropical wetland. Biogeochemistry 129: 273-289

  Morris, J., D.C. Barber, J. Callaway, R.M. Chambers, S.C. Hagen, C. Hopkinson, B.J. Johnson, P. Megonigal, S.C. Neubauer, T. Troxler, and C. Wigand. 2016. Contributions of organic and inorganic matter to sediment volume and accretion in tidal wetlands at steady state. Earth's Future 4: 110-121

  Regier, P., and R. Jaffe. 2016. Short-term dissolved organic carbon dynamics reflect tidal, water management, and precipitation patterns in a subtropical estuary. Frontiers in Marine Science 3: 250

  Regier, P., H.O. Briceno, and R. Jaffe. 2016. Long-term environmental drivers of DOC fluxes: Linkages between management, hydrology and climate in a subtropical coastal estuary. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 182, Part A: 112-122

  Smith, C.G., R.M. Price, P.W. Swarzenski, and J.C. Stalker. 2016. The role of ocean tides on groundwater-surface water exchange in a mangrove-dominated estuary: Shark River Slough, Florida Coastal Everglades, USA. Estuaries and Coasts 39: 1600-1616

  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

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

  Troxler, T., J.G. Barr, J.D. Fuentes, V. Engel, G. Anderson, C. Sanchez, D. Lagomasino, R.M. Price, and S.E. Davis. 2015. Component-specific dynamics of riverine mangrove CO2 efflux in the Florida Coastal Everglades. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 213: 273-282

  He, D., R.N. Mead, L. Belicka, O. Pisani, and R. Jaffe. 2014. Assessing source contributions to particulate organic matter in a subtropical estuary: A biomarker approach. Organic Geochemistry 75: 129-139

  Lagomasino, D., R.M. Price, D. Whitman, P.K. Campbell, and A. Melesse. 2014. Estimating major ion and nutrient concentrations in mangrove estuaries in Everglades National Park using leaf and satellite reflectance. Remote Sensing of Environment 154: 202-218

  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

  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

  Rosenblatt, A.E., and M.R. Heithaus. 2011. Does variation in movement tactics and trophic interactions among American alligators create habitat linkages? Journal of Animal Ecology 80: 786-798

  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

  Matich, P., M.R. Heithaus, and C.A. Layman. 2010. Size-based variation in intertissue comparisons of stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic signatures of bull sharks (Carcharhinus leucas) and tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 67: 877-885

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

  Heithaus, M.R., B. Delius, A.J. Wirsing, and M. Dunphy-Daly. 2009. Physical factors influencing the distribution of a top predator in a subtropical oligotrophic estuary. Limnology and Oceanography 54: 472-482

  Mancera-Pineda, J.E., R.R. Twilley, and V.H. Rivera-Monroy. 2009. Carbon (d13c) and nitrogen (d15n) isotopic discrimination in mangroves in Florida Coastal Everglades as a function of environmental stress. Contributions in Marine Science 38: 109-129

  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

  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

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

  Jaffe, R., R. Mead, M.E. Hernandez, M.C. Peralba, and O.A. DiGuida. 2001. Origin and transport of sedimentary organic matter in two subtropical estuaries: A comparative, biomarker-based study. Organic Geochemistry 32: 507-526