Research Sites

SRS-7 Site

• Description and Location
  Site status:

  Active
  (Active from January 2020 to present)

  Latitude, longitude:

  25.352825, -81.114339

  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, large stature

  Climatology:

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

• Photos

  Photos

  
  
  

  
  
  

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• Data sets

  Data sets

  FCE Datasets
  

  Periphyton Nutritonal Data across the freshwater Everglades (FCE): June 2016-Feb 2017
  Creators: Trexler, Joel; Sanchez, Jessica;

  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;

• Publications

  Publications

  Journal Articles

  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

  Breithaupt, J.L., N. Hurst, H.E. Steinmuller, E. Duga, J.M. Smoak, J. Kominoski, and L.G. Chambers. 2020. Comparing the biogeochemistry of storm surge sediments and pre-storm soils in coastal wetlands: Hurricane Irma and the Florida Everglades. Estuaries and Coasts 43: 1090–1103

  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