Research Sites

TS/Ph-2 Site

• Description and Location
  Site alias:

  UE

  Site status:

  Active
  (Active from March 2000 to present)

  Latitude, longitude:

  25.40357188, -80.60690341

  Site size:

  Approx. 0.25 ha

  Watershed:

  Taylor Slough

  
  

  Hydrography:

  Seasonally driven sheetflow

  Topography:

  Flat

  Geology:

  Limestone bedrock

  Soil:

  Wetland marly peat, 1m thick

  Vegetation:

  Sparse sawgrass marsh

  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 (Extensive) from the Taylor Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE LTER), Florida, USA, July 1999 - ongoing
  Creators: Troxler, Tiffany;

  Water Quality Data (Grab Samples) from the Taylor Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE), Florida, USA, September 1999 - ongoing
  Creators: Troxler, Tiffany;

  Water Quality Data (Porewater) from the Taylor Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE), South Florida from September 1999 to December 2006
  Creators: Troxler, Tiffany; Childers, Daniel;

  Sawgrass Above and Below Ground Total Phosphorus from the Taylor Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE LTER), Florida, USA, March 2002 - ongoing
  Creators: Troxler, Tiffany; Childers, Daniel;

  Sawgrass Above and Below Ground Total Nitrogen and Total Carbon from the Taylor Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE LTER), Florida, USA, March 2002 - ongoing
  Creators: Troxler, Tiffany; Childers, Daniel;

  Sawgrass above ground biomass from the Taylor Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE LTER), Florida, USA, August 1999 - ongoing
  Creators: Troxler, Tiffany; Childers, Daniel;

  Soil Physical Data from the Taylor Slough, within Everglades National Park (FCE), from September 1999 to November 2006
  Creators: Troxler, Tiffany; Childers, Daniel;

  Soil Characteristic and Nutrient Data from the Taylor Slough, within Everglades National Park (FCE), from March 2002 to April 2004
  Creators: Troxler, Tiffany; Childers, Daniel;

  Precipitation from the Taylor Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE LTER), Florida, USA, July 2000 - ongoing
  Creators: Troxler, Tiffany; Childers, Daniel;

  Water Depths from the Taylor Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE LTER), Florida, USA, August 1999 - ongoing
  Creators: Troxler, Tiffany; 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;

  Quantitative and qualitative aspects of dissolved organic carbon leached from plant biomass in Taylor Slough, Shark River and Florida Bay (FCE) for samples collected in July 2004
  Creators: Jaffe, Rudolf;

  Chemical characteristics of dissolved organic matter in an oligotrophic subtropical wetland/estuary ecosystem, Everglades National Park (FCE), South Florida from December 2001 to January 2002
  Creators: Jaffe, Rudolf;

  Physical and microbial processing of dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) (Salinity Experiment) along an oligotrophic marsh/mangrove/estuary ecotone (Taylor Slough and Florida Bay) for August 2003 in Everglades National Park (FCE), South Florida, USA
  Creators: Jaffe, Rudolf;

  Physical and microbial processing of dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) (Photodegradation Experiment) along an oligotrophic marsh/mangrove/estuary ecotone (Taylor Slough and Florida Bay) for August 2003 in Everglades National Park (FCE), South Florida, USA
  Creators: Jaffe, Rudolf;

  Characterization of dissloved organic nitrogen in an oligotrophic subtropical coastal ecosystem (Taylor Slough and Shark River Slough) for December 2001 in Everglades National Park (FCE), South Florida, USA
  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;

  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;

• 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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  Sandoval, E., R.M. Price, D. Whitman, and A. Melesse. 2016. Long-term (11 years) study of water balance, flushing times and water chemistry of a coastal wetland undergoing restoration, Everglades, Florida, USA. Catena 144: 74-83

  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

  Guevara, R., M. Ikenaga, A. Dean, C. Pisani, and J.N. Boyer. 2014. Changes in sediment bacterial community in response to long-term nutrient enrichment in a subtropical seagrass-dominated estuary. Microbial Ecology 68: 427-440

  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

  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

  Maie, N., C. Yang, T. Miyoshi, K. Parish, and R. Jaffe. 2005. Chemical characteristics of dissolved organic matter in an oligotrophic subtropical wetland/estuarine ecosystem. Limnology and Oceanography 50: 23-35

  Mead, R.N., Y. Xu, J. Chong, and R. Jaffe. 2005. Sedimentary organic matter source assessment in a sub-tropical wetland and estuarine environment using the molecular distribution and carbon isotopic composition of n-alkanes. Organic Geochemistry 36: 363-370