Research Sites

TS/Ph-7a Site

• Description and Location
  Site alias:

  Taylor Mouth

  Site status:

  Active
  (Active from March 2000 to present)

  Latitude, longitude:

  25.19080491, -80.63910514

  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
  

  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, April 1996 - ongoing
  Creators: Troxler, Tiffany;

  Water Quality Data (Grab Samples) from the Taylor Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE LTER), Florida, USA, May 2001 - ongoing
  Creators: Troxler, Tiffany; Childers, Daniel;

  Water Levels from the Taylor Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE LTER), South Florida from April 1996 to 2012
  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;

  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;

  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;

  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;

  Florida Bay Braun Blanquet, Everglades National Park (FCE LTER), South Florida, USA, September 2000 - ongoing
  Creators: Fourqurean, James;

  Florida Bay Productivity Data, Everglades National Park (FCE LTER), Florida, USA, September 2000 - ongoing
  Creators: Fourqurean, James;

  Florida Bay Stable Isotope Data Everglades National Park (FCE LTER), Florida, USA, September 2000 - ongoing
  Creators: Fourqurean, James;

  Florida Bay Physical Data, Everglades National Park (FCE LTER), Florida, USA, September 2000 - ongoing
  Creators: Fourqurean, James;

  Florida Bay Seagrass Canopy Temperature Data, Everglades National Park (FCE LTER), South Florida, USA, September 2000 - ongoing
  Creators: Fourqurean, James;

  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;

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

  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;

  Stable isotope values of consumers, producers, and organic matter in the Shark River Slough and Taylor Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE LTER), Florida, USA, 2019 – ongoing
  Creators: Rezek, Ryan;

• 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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  Briceno, H.O., G. Miller, and S.E. Davis. 2014. Relating freshwater flow with estuarine water quality in the southern Everglades mangrove ecotone. Wetlands 34: 101-111

  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

  Chen, M., R.M. Price, Y. Yamashita, and R. Jaffe. 2010. Comparative study of dissolved organic matter from groundwater and surface water in the Florida coastal Everglades using multi-dimensional spectrofluorometry combined with multivariate statistics. Applied Geochemistry 25: 872-880

  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

  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

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

  Williams, C.J., J.N. Boyer, and F.J. Jochem. 2009. Microbial activity and carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus content in a subtropical seagrass estuary (Florida Bay): evidence for limited bacterial use of seagrass production. Marine Biology 156: 341-353

  Williams, C.J., J.N. Boyer, and F.J. Jochem. 2008. Indirect hurricane effects on resource availability and microbial communities in a subtropical wetland - estuary transition zone. Estuaries and Coasts 31: 204-214

  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

  Xu, Y., and R. Jaffe. 2007. Lipid biomarkers in suspended particulates from a subtropical estuary: Assessment of seasonal changes in sources and transport of organic matter. Marine Environmental Research 64: 666-678

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

  Williams, C.J., and F.J. Jochem. 2006. Ectoenzyme kinetics in Florida Bay: Implications for bacterial carbon source and nutrient status. Hydrobiologia 569: 113-127

  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

  Davis, S.E., D.L. Childers, J.W. Day, D.T. Rudnick, and F.H. Sklar. 2003. Factors affecting the concentration and flux of materials in two southern Everglades mangrove wetlands. Marine Ecology Progress Series 253: 85-96

  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