Research Sites

TS/Ph-6b Site

• Description and Location
  Site alias:

  Northern Boardwalk

  Site status:

  Active
  (Active from March 2000 to present)

  Latitude, longitude:

  25.21609115, -80.65101654

  Site size:

  Approx. 1 ha

  Watershed:

  Taylor Slough

  
  

  Hydrography:

  Seasonally driven freshwater inputs and wind-driven estuarine inputs

  Topography:

  Flat, with tidal creek topography

  Geology:

  Limestone bedrock

  Soil:

  Wetland peat, > 1 m thick

  Vegetation:

  Mangrove forest

  Habitat:

  Mangrove wetland, low/dwarf stature

  Climatology:

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

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• Data sets

  Data sets

  FCE Datasets
  

  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;

  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;

  Mangrove leaf physiological response to local climate at Key Largo, Watson River Chickee, Taylor Slough, and Little Rabbit Key, South Florida (FCE) from July 2001 to August 2001
  Creators: Barr, Jordan; Fuentes, Jose; Zieman, Joseph;

  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;

  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;

  Subsurface Water Temperatures taken in Shark River Slough and Taylor Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE LTER), Florida, USA, May 2010 - December 2015
  Creators: Rains, Mark;

  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;

• Publications

  Publications

  Journal Articles

  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

  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

  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

  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

  Lagomasino, D., R.M. Price, D. Whitman, A. Melesse, and S. Oberbauer. 2015. Spatial and temporal variability in spectral-based surface energy evapotranspiration measured from Landsat 5TM across two mangrove ecotones. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 213: 304-316

  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

  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

  Zapata-Rios, X., and R.M. Price. 2012. Estimates of groundwater discharge to a coastal wetland using multiple techniques: Taylor Slough, Everglades National Park, USA . Hydrogeology Journal 20 : 1651-1668

  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

  Wachnicka, A., E.E. Gaiser, L. Collins, T.A. Frankovich, and J. Boyer. 2010. Distribution of diatoms and development of diatom-based models for inferring salinity and nutrient concentrations in Florida Bay and adjacent coastal wetlands of south Florida (USA). Estuaries and Coasts 33: 1080-1098

  Barr, J.G., J.D. Fuentes, V. Engel, and J.C. Zieman. 2009. Physiological responses of red mangroves to the climate in the Florida Everglades. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences 114: G02008

  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