Research Sites

TS/Ph-7b Site

• Description and Location
  Site alias:

  Southern Boardwalk

  Site status:

  Active
  (Active from March 2000 to present)

  Latitude, longitude:

  25.19676203, -80.64207766

  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
  

  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;

  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;

  Non-continuous TS/Ph7b Weather Tower Data, Everglades National Park (FCE LTER), South Florida from May 2008 to 2017
  Creators: Price, Rene;

  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;

  FCE LTER Taylor Slough/Panhandle-7 Site Scrub Red Mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) Leaf Gas Exchange Data, Florida, USA from January-December 2019
  Creators: Hogan, James A; Castaneda, Edward; Lamb-Wotton, Lukas;

• Publications

  Publications

  Book Chapters

  Davis, S.E., D. Lirman, and J. Wozniak. 2009. Nitrogen and phosphorus exchange among tropical coastal ecosystems, pp. 9-44 in Nagelkerken, Ivan (eds.) Ecological Connectivity Among Tropical Coastal Ecosystems. Springer : New York

  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

  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

  Hogan, J.A., E. Castañeda-Moya, L. Lamb-Wotton, T. Troxler, and C. Baraloto. 2022. Water levels primarily drive variation in photosynthesis and nutrient use of scrub Red Mangroves in the southeastern Florida Everglades. Tree Physiology 42: 797-814

  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

  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

  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

  Davis, S.E., D.L. Childers, and G.B. Noe. 2006. The contribution of leaching to the rapid release of nutrients and carbon in the early decay of wetland vegetation. Hydrobiologia 569: 87-97

  Jones, V., K. Parish, A. Thomson, G.A. Wolff, N. Maie, and R. Jaffe. 2006. Molecular characterization of proteinaceous material in the Florida coastal Everglades. Hydrobiologia 569: 129-133

  Davis, S.E., C. Coronado-Molina, D.L. Childers, and J.W. Day. 2003. Temporally dependent C, N, and P dynamics associated with the decay of Rhizophora mangle L. leaf litter in oligotrophic mangrove wetlands of the Southern Everglades. Aquatic Botany 75: 199-215

  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