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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

General Information
Data Package:
Local Identifier:knb-lter-fce.1127.13
Title: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
Alternate Identifier:LT_SS_Chambers_001
Alternate Identifier:DOI PLACE HOLDER
Abstract:

These data represent the results of annual soil sampling and analysis from all 17 FCE LTER transect locations from Year 2004 thru ongoing. Surface soils from 0-10 cm have been homogenized and analyzed from Sawgrass and mangrove sites and Florida Bay sites. Soils and sediments were analyzed for a suite of physical/chemical variables, including bulk density, organic matter content, extractable iron, AVS and CRS sulfur, and various forms of extractable phosphorus. These analyses are completed to document the differences in soil structure among transect sites, and to provide a baseline dataset against which long-term changes in the physical/chemical properties of the soils can be detected.

Publication Date:2024-01-23
For more information:
Visit: DOI PLACE HOLDER

Time Period
Begin:
2004-08-15
End:
2023-08-15

People and Organizations
Contact:Chambers, Randy (College of William and Mary, Director, W.M. Keck Environmental Field Lab) [  email ]
Contact:Information Manager (Florida Coastal Everglades LTER) [  email ]
Creator:Chambers, Randy (Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program, Project Collaborator)
Creator:Russell, Timothy (Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program, Technical Staff)
Creator:Gorsky, Adrianna (College of William and Mary, Technical Staff)
Associate:Chambers, Randy (College of William and Mary, Project Collaborator)
Associate:Fourqurean, Jim (Southeast Environmental Research Center, Principal Investigator)
Associate:Russell, Timothy (College of William and Mary, Technical Staff)
Associate:Travesio, Rafael (Florida Coastal Everglades LTER, Technical Staff)

Data Entities
Data Table Name:
LT_SS_Chambers_001.csv
Description:
Physical and Chemical Characteristics of Soil Sediments from the Shark River Slough and Taylor Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE)
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Data Entities


Data Table

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Name:LT_SS_Chambers_001.csv
Description:Physical and Chemical Characteristics of Soil Sediments from the Shark River Slough and Taylor Slough, Everglades National Park (FCE)
Number of Records:1142
Number of Columns:15

Table Structure
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Total_S  
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Data Package Usage Rights

This information is released under the Creative Commons license - Attribution - CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The consumer of these data ("Data User" herein) is required to cite it appropriately in any publication that results from its use. The Data User should realize that these data may be actively used by others for ongoing research and that coordination may be necessary to prevent duplicate publication. The Data User is urged to contact the authors of these data if any questions about methodology or results occur. Where appropriate, the Data User is encouraged to consider collaboration or co-authorship with the authors. The Data User should realize that misinterpretation of data may occur if used out of context of the original study. While substantial efforts are made to ensure the accuracy of data and associated documentation, complete accuracy of data sets cannot be guaranteed. All data are made available "as is." The Data User should be aware, however, that data are updated periodically and it is the responsibility of the Data User to check for new versions of the data. The data authors and the repository where these data were obtained shall not be liable for damages resulting from any use or misinterpretation of the data. Thank you.

External Annotations

With link(s) out to external vocabularies
Dataset isAbout soil

Keywords

By Thesaurus:
LTER Controlled Vocabularyphosphorus, soil bulk density, iron, sulfide
LTER Core Research Areaorganic matter
LTER Keyword ThesaurusFCE, Florida Coastal Everglades LTER, ecological research, long-term monitoring, Shark River Slough, Everglades National Park, Taylor Slough, organic fluxes, inorganic sediment summary, Soil Percent Organics, Soil Extractable Phosphorus, Soil Total Phosphorus, Soil Extractable Iron, Soil Acid Volatile Sulfide, Soil Chromium-Reducible Sulfide, Soil Total Sulfide

Methods and Protocols

These methods, instrumentation and/or protocols apply to all data in this dataset:

Methods and protocols used in the collection of this data package
Description:

Bulk density obtained as the dry weight of known sample volume of soil. %organic obtained as weight loss on ignition expressed as percentage of dry weight. Extractable phosphorus by sequential extraction was obtained by the following: PI (MgCl2 extraction--inorganic P only); PII (buffered dithionite extraction--inorganic P only); PIII (1N HCl extraction--inorganic P only); PIV (ashing/acid extraction). Total phosphorus obtained by 1N HCl extraction of ashed soil sample. Extractable iron obtained from ashed soil sample as the result of 18-hour extraction with 1N HCl, followed by ferrozine analysis. Acid volatile sulfide obtained by 1N HCl extraction of soil sample followed by reaction with Cline's reagent. Chromium-reducible sulfur obtained by concentrated HCl/chromous chloride extraction of soil sample followed by reaction with Cline's reagent. Total reduced sulfur calculated as the sum of acid-volatile plus chromium-reducible sulfur.

Instrument(s):Standard laboratory drying ovens furnaces balances All wet chemical analyses completed using a Genesys 5 spectrophotometer
Sampling Area and Study Extent
Sampling Description:

Surface soil cores collected at random. Sampling is done once a year in mid-August.

Sampling Area And Frequency:

The Study Extent of this dataset includes the FCE Shark River Slough and Taylor Slough research sites within Everglades National Park, South Florida

Quality Control
Quality Control Step 1: 
Description:

People and Organizations

Publishers:
Organization:Environmental Data Initiative
Email Address:
info@edirepository.org
Web Address:
https://edirepository.org
Id:https://ror.org/0330j0z60
Creators:
Individual:Dr. Randy Chambers
Organization:Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program
Position:Project Collaborator
Address:
Department of Biology,
College of William and Mary,
Williamsburg, VA 23187 USA
Phone:
757-221-2331 (voice)
Phone:
757-221-5076 (fax)
Email Address:
rmcham@wm.edu
Web Address:
https://www.wm.edu/as/kecklab/index.php
Id:https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6354-9960
Individual: Timothy Russell
Organization:Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program
Position:Technical Staff
Address:
Keck Environmental Field Lab,
College of William and Mary,
Williamsburg, VA 23187 USA
Phone:
757-221-5074 (voice)
Phone:
757-221-5076 (fax)
Email Address:
tmruss@wm.edu
Web Address:
https://www.wm.edu/as/kecklab/index.php
Individual: Adrianna Gorsky
Organization:College of William and Mary
Position:Technical Staff
Address:
Keck Environmental Field Lab,
College of William and Mary,
Williamsburg, VA 23187 USA
Phone:
757-221-5074 (voice)
Phone:
757-221-5076 (fax)
Email Address:
algorsky@wm.edu
Web Address:
https://www.wm.edu/as/kecklab/index.php
Id:https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5107-8188
Contacts:
Individual: Randy Chambers
Organization:College of William and Mary
Position:Director, W.M. Keck Environmental Field Lab
Address:
Department of Biology,
College of William and Mary,
Williamsburg, VA 23187 USA
Phone:
757-221-2331 (voice)
Phone:
757-221-5076 (fax)
Email Address:
rmcham@wm.edu
Web Address:
https://www.wm.edu/as/kecklab/index.php
Organization:Florida Coastal Everglades LTER
Position:Information Manager
Address:
Florida International University,
11200 SW 8th Street,
OE 148,
Miami, FL 33199 USA
Email Address:
fcelter@fiu.edu
Web Address:
http://fcelter.fiu.edu
Associated Parties:
Individual: Randy Chambers
Organization:College of William and Mary
Address:
Department of Biology,
College of William and Mary,
Williamsburg, VA 23187 USA
Phone:
757-221-2331 (voice)
Phone:
757-221-5076 (fax)
Email Address:
rmcham@wm.edu
Web Address:
https://www.wm.edu/as/kecklab/index.php
Role:Project Collaborator
Individual: Jim Fourqurean
Organization:Southeast Environmental Research Center
Address:
Florida International University,
University Park,
OE 237,
Miami, FL 33199 USA
Phone:
305-348-4084 (voice)
Phone:
305-348-4096 (fax)
Email Address:
fourqure@fiu.edu
Web Address:
https://seagrass.fiu.edu/
Role:Principal Investigator
Individual: Timothy Russell
Organization:College of William and Mary
Address:
Keck Environmental Field Lab,
College of William and Mary,
Williamsburg, VA 23187 USA
Phone:
757-221-5074 (voice)
Phone:
757-221-5076 (fax)
Email Address:
tmruss@wm.edu
Web Address:
https://www.wm.edu/as/kecklab/index.php
Role:Technical Staff
Individual: Rafael Travesio
Organization:Florida Coastal Everglades LTER
Address:
Florida International University,
11200 SW 8th Street,
OE 148,
Miami, FL 33199 USA
Email Address:
travesio@fiu.edu
Web Address:
http://algae.fiu.edu/
Role:Technical Staff
Metadata Providers:
Organization:Florida Coastal Everglades LTER
Address:
Florida International University,
11200 SW 8th Street,
OE 148,
Miami, FL 33199 USA
Phone:
305-348-6054 (voice)
Email Address:
fcelter@fiu.edu
Web Address:
http://fcelter.fiu.edu
Id:https://ror.org/03davk141

Temporal, Geographic and Taxonomic Coverage

Temporal, Geographic and/or Taxonomic information that applies to all data in this dataset:

Time Period
Begin:
2004-08-15
End:
2023-08-15
Sampling Site: 
Description:SRS1b
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): -80.726Latitude (degree): 25.758
Sampling Site: 
Description:SRS2
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): -80.785Latitude (degree): 25.55
Sampling Site: 
Description:SRS3
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): -80.853Latitude (degree): 25.468
Sampling Site: 
Description:SRS4
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): -80.964Latitude (degree): 25.41
Sampling Site: 
Description:SRS5
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): -81.032Latitude (degree): 25.377
Sampling Site: 
Description:SRS6
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): -81.078Latitude (degree): 25.365
Sampling Site: 
Description:TS/Ph1a
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): -80.59Latitude (degree): 25.424
Sampling Site: 
Description:TS/Ph1b
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): -80.59Latitude (degree): 25.439
Sampling Site: 
Description:TS/Ph2
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): -80.607Latitude (degree): 25.404
Sampling Site: 
Description:TS/Ph3
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): -80.663Latitude (degree): 25.252
Sampling Site: 
Description:TS/Ph4
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): -80.522Latitude (degree): 25.315
Sampling Site: 
Description:TS/Ph5
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): -80.52Latitude (degree): 25.295
Sampling Site: 
Description:TS/Ph6b
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): -80.651Latitude (degree): 25.216
Sampling Site: 
Description:TS/Ph7a
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): -80.639Latitude (degree): 25.191
Sampling Site: 
Description:TS/Ph8
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): -80.525Latitude (degree): 25.233
Sampling Site: 
Description:TS/Ph9
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): -80.49Latitude (degree): 25.177
Sampling Site: 
Description:TS/Ph10
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): -80.68Latitude (degree): 25.02
Sampling Site: 
Description:TS/Ph11
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): -80.94Latitude (degree): 24.91
Sampling Site: 
Description:SRS1c
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): -80.574Latitude (degree): 25.755
Sampling Site: 
Description:SRS1d
Site Coordinates:
Longitude (degree): -80.654Latitude (degree): 25.746

Project

Parent Project Information:

Title:Florida Coastal Everglades LTER: Coastal Oligotrophic Ecosystems Research-the Coastal Everglades
Personnel:
Individual: Daniel Childers
Organization:Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program
Address:
Department of Biological Sciences,
Florida International University,
University Park,
OE 167,
Miami, FL 33199 USA
Phone:
305-348-3101 (voice)
Phone:
305-348-1986 (fax)
Email Address:
childers@fiu.edu
Role:Lead Principal Investigator
Individual: Joseph Boyer
Organization:Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program
Address:
Southeast Environmental Research Center,
Florida International University,
University Park,
OE 148,
Miami, FL 33199 USA
Phone:
305-348-4076 (voice)
Phone:
305-348-4096 (fax)
Role:Principal Investigator
Individual: James Fourqurean
Organization:Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program
Address:
Department of Biological Sciences,
Florida International University,
University Park,
OE 167,
Miami, FL 33199 USA
Phone:
305-348-4084 (voice)
Phone:
305-348-4096 (fax)
Role:Principal Investigator
Individual: Rudolf Jaffe
Organization:Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program
Address:
Department of Chemistry,
Florida International University,
University Park,
CP 304,
Miami, FL 33199 USA
Phone:
305-348-2456 (voice)
Phone:
305-348-4096 (fax)
Role:Principal Investigator
Individual: Joel Trexler
Organization:Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program
Address:
Department of Biological Sciences,
Florida International University,
University Park,
OE 167,
Miami, FL 33199 USA
Phone:
305-348-1966 (voice)
Phone:
305-348-1986 (fax)
Role:Principal Investigator
Abstract:

We are investigating how variability in regional climate, freshwater inputs, disturbance, and perturbations affect the coastal Everglades ecosystem. Our long term research program focuses on testing the following central idea and hypotheses: Regional processes mediated by water flow control population and ecosystem level dynamics at any location within the coastal Everglades landscape. This phenomenon is best exemplified in the dynamics of an estuarine oligohaline zone where fresh water draining phosphorus-limited Everglades marshes mixes with water from the more nitrogen-limited coastal ocean. Hypothesis 1: In nutrient-poor coastal systems, long-term changes in the quantity or quality of organic matter inputs will exert strong and direct controls on estuarine productivity, because inorganic nutrients are at such low levels. Hypothesis 2: Interannual and long-term changes in freshwater flow controls the magnitude of nutrients and organic matter inputs to the estuarine zone, while ecological processes in the freshwater marsh and coastal ocean control the quality and characteristics of those inputs. Hypothesis 3: Long-term changes in freshwater flow (primarily manifest through management and Everglades restoration) will interact with long-term changes in the climatic and disturbance (sea level rise, hurricanes, fires) regimes to modify ecological pattern and process across coastal landscapes.

Funding:

National Science Foundation under Grant # 9910514

Additional Award Information:
Funder:National Science Foundation
Funder ID:https://ror.org/021nxhr62
Number:9910514
Title:Florida Coastal Everglades LTER: Coastal Oligotrophic Ecosystems Research-the Coastal Everglades
URL:https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9910514
Related Project:
Title:FCE LTER II: Coastal Oligotrophic Ecosystems Research
Personnel:
Individual: Evelyn Gaiser
Organization:Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program
Address:
Florida International University,
University Park,
OE 148,
Miami, FL 33199 USA
Phone:
305-348-6145 (voice)
Phone:
305-348-4096 (fax)
Email Address:
gaisere@fiu.edu
Role:Lead Principal Investigator
Individual: Mike Heithaus
Organization:Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program
Address:
Department of Biological Sciences,
Marine Biology Program,
Florida International University,
Biscayne Bay Campus,
Miami, FL 33181 USA
Phone:
(305) 919-5234 (voice)
Phone:
(305) 919-4030 (fax)
Email Address:
heithaus@fiu.edu
Role:Principal Investigator
Individual: Rudolf Jaffe
Organization:Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program
Address:
Department of Chemistry,
Florida International University,
University Park,
CP 304,
Miami, FL 33199 USA
Phone:
305-348-2456 (voice)
Phone:
305-348-4096 (fax)
Email Address:
jaffer@fiu.edu
Role:Principal Investigator
Individual: Rene Price
Organization:Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program
Address:
Department of Earth Sciences,
Florida International University,
University Park,
PC 344,
11200 SW 8th Street,
Miami, FL 33199 USA
Phone:
305-348-3119 (voice)
Phone:
305-348-3877 (fax)
Email Address:
pricer@fiu.edu
Role:Principal Investigator
Abstract:

Our FCE I research focused on understanding how dissolved organic matter from upstream oligotrophic marshes interacts with a marine source of phosphorus (P), the limiting nutrient, to control estuarine productivity where these two influences meet-in the oligohaline ecotone. This dynamic is affected by the interaction of local ecological processes and landscape-scale drivers (hydrologic, climatological, and human). During FCE I, our ideas about how these "upside-down" estuaries (Childers et al. 2006) function has evolved, and we have modified our central theme to reflect this new understanding. Our focus in FCE II will be even more strongly on the oligohaline ecotone region of our experimental transects. For FCE II, our overarching theme is: In the coastal Everglades landscape, population and ecosystem-level dynamics are controlled by the relative importance of water source, water residence time, and local biotic processes. This phenomenon is best exemplified in the oligohaline ecotone, where these 3 factors interact most strongly and vary over many [temporal and spatial] scales.Hypothesis 1: Increasing inputs of fresh water will enhance oligotrophy in nutrient-poor coastal systems, as long as the inflowing water has low nutrient content; this dynamic will be most pronounced in the oligohaline ecotone. Hypothesis 2: An increase in freshwater inflow will increase the physical transport of detrital organic matter to the oligohaline ecotone, which will enhance estuarine productivity. The quality of these allochthonous detrital inputs will be controlled by upstream ecological processes. Hypothesis 3: Water residence time, groundwater inputs, and tidal energy interact with climatic and disturbance regimes to modify ecological pattern and process in oligotrophic estuaries; this dynamic will be most pronounced in the oligohaline ecotone. Childers, D.L., J.N. Boyer, S.E. Davis, C.J. Madden, D.T. Rudnick, and F.H. Sklar, 2006. Relating precipitation and water management to nutrient concentration patterns in the oligotrophic "upside down" estuaries of the Florida Everglades. Limnology and Oceanography, 51(1): 602-616.

Funding:

National Science Foundation under Grant # 9910514 and #0620409

Additional Award Information:
Funder:National Science Foundation
Funder ID:https://ror.org/021nxhr62
Number:620409
Title:FCE LTER II: Coastal Oligotrophic Ecosystems Research
URL:https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0620409
Related Project:
Title:FCE LTER III: Coastal Oligotrophic Ecosystems Research
Personnel:
Individual: Evelyn Gaiser
Organization:Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program
Address:
Florida International University,
University Park,
OE 148,
Miami, FL 33199 USA
Phone:
305-348-6145 (voice)
Phone:
305-348-4096 (fax)
Email Address:
gaisere@fiu.edu
Role:Lead Principal Investigator
Individual: Mike Heithaus
Organization:Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program
Address:
Department of Biological Sciences,
Marine Biology Program,
Florida International University,
Biscayne Bay Campus,
Miami, FL 33181 USA
Phone:
(305) 919-5234 (voice)
Phone:
(305) 919-4030 (fax)
Email Address:
heithaus@fiu.edu
Role:Principal Investigator
Individual: Rudolf Jaffe
Organization:Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program
Address:
Department of Chemistry,
Florida International University,
University Park,
CP 304,
Miami, FL 33199 USA
Phone:
305-348-2456 (voice)
Phone:
305-348-4096 (fax)
Email Address:
jaffer@fiu.edu
Role:Principal Investigator
Individual: Rene Price
Organization:Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program
Address:
Department of Earth Sciences,
Florida International University,
University Park,
PC 344,
11200 SW 8th Street,
Miami, FL 33199 USA
Phone:
305-348-3119 (voice)
Phone:
305-348-3877 (fax)
Email Address:
pricer@fiu.edu
Role:Principal Investigator
Individual: Laura Ogden
Organization:Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program
Address:
Department of Global & Sociocultural Studies,
Florida International University,
University Park,
DM341C,
11200 SW 8th Street,
Miami, FL 33199 USA
Phone:
305-348-6663 (voice)
Phone:
305-348-3605 (fax)
Email Address:
Laura.Ogden@fiu.edu
Role:Principal Investigator
Abstract:

Coastal ecosystems are being modified at unprecedented rates through interacting pressures of global climate change and rapid human population growth, impacting natural coastal resources and the services they provide. Located at the base of the shallow-sloping Florida peninsula, the Everglades wilderness and 6 million human residents are exceptionally exposed to both pressures. Further, freshwater drainage has accelerated saltwater intrusion over land and into the porous limestone aquifer, resulting in coastal ecosystem transgression and seasonal residential freshwater shortages. The unprecedented landscape-scale Everglades restoration process is expected to reverse some of these trends. However, it is not clear how uncertainties about climate change prognoses and their impacts (e.g., sea level rise (SLR), changes in storm activity or severity, and climate drivers of freshwater availability) may influence human activities (e.g., population growth, resource use, land-use change), and how their interaction will affect the restoration process that is already steeped in conflict. The Florida Coastal Everglades Long-Term Ecological Research (FCE LTER) program is dedicated to long-term coupled biophysical and cultural studies that expose and unravel complex feedbacks that generate distinctive patterns and processes in vulnerable coastal ecosystems. The overarching theme of FCE research is: In the coastal Everglades, climate change and resource management decisions interact to influence freshwater availability, ecosystem dynamics, and the value and utilization of ecosystem services by people. Because they are highly sensitive to the balance of freshwater and marine influences, coastal wetlands of the Florida Everglades provide an ideal system to examine how socio-ecological systems respond to and mitigate the effects of climate change and freshwater allocation decisions. The trans-disciplinary science conducted by the large FCE research team is revealing how estuary hydrodynamics and biogeochemistry may tilt on a fulcrum defined by the magnitude by which coastal pressures (SRL, storms) are mitigated by freshwater flows. We employ a socio-ecological framework to address how climate change interacts with political decisions to determine the sustainability of interconnected human-natural systems. In FCE I, we discovered how coastal nutrient supplies create an unusual “upside-down” productivity gradient in karstic estuaries. FCE II research used growing long-term datasets to reveal the sensitivity of this gradient to changes in hydrodynamics, nutrient availability, and salinity. In FCE III, we will use South Florida as an exemplary system for understanding how and why socio-ecological systems resist, adapt to, or mitigate the effects of climate change on ecosystem sustainability. We will examine how decisions about freshwater delivery to the Everglades influence -and are influenced by - the impact of SLR in this especially vulnerable landscape. Biophysical studies will focus on how this balance of fresh and marine sources influences biogeochemical cycling, primary production, organic matter dynamics, and trophic dynamics, to drive carbon gains and losses. We expand our spatio-temporal domain by employing powerful long-term datasets and experiments to determine legacies of past interactions, and to constrain models that will help guide a sustainable future for the FCE.

Funding:

National Science Foundation under Grant # 9910514, #0620409 and DEB-1237517

Additional Award Information:
Funder:National Science Foundation
Funder ID:https://ror.org/021nxhr62
Number:1237517
Title:FCE LTER III: Coastal Oligotrophic Ecosystems Research
URL:https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1237517
Related Project:
Title:LTER: Drivers of Abrupt Change in the Florida Coastal Everglades
Personnel:
Individual: Evelyn Gaiser
Organization:Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program
Address:
Florida International University,
University Park,
OE 148,
Miami, FL 33199 USA
Phone:
305-348-6145 (voice)
Phone:
305-348-4096 (fax)
Email Address:
gaisere@fiu.edu
Role:Lead Principal Investigator
Individual: James Fourqurean
Organization:Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program
Address:
Department of Biological Sciences,
INWE,
SERC,
Florida International University,
Email Address:
fourqure@fiu.edu
Role:Co-Principal Investigator
Individual: John Kominoski
Organization:Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program
Address:
Department of Biological Sciences,
INWE,
SERC,
Florida International University,
Email Address:
jkominos@fiu.edu
Role:Co-Principal Investigator
Individual: Jennifer Rehage
Organization:Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program
Address:
Department of Earth and Environment,
INWE, SERC,
Florida International University,
Email Address:
rehagej@fiu.edu
Role:Co-Principal Investigator
Individual: Kevin Grove
Organization:Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program
Address:
Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies,
Florida International University,
Email Address:
kgrove@fiu.edu
Role:Co-Principal Investigator
Abstract:

Coastal ecosystems like the Florida Everglades provide many benefits to society. They protect coastlines from storms and store carbon. They provide habitat and food for important fisheries. They also support tourism and local economies, and store freshwater for millions of people. The Florida Coastal Everglades Long Term Ecological Research (FCE LTER) program addresses how and why coastal ecosystems are changing in response to sea level rise and the actions of people. Like many coastal ecosystems, the Florida Everglades are threatened by the diversion of freshwater to support urban and agricultural expansion. At the same time, sea level rise has caused coastal ecosystems to become saltier, threatening the freshwater supply, stressing freshwater plants, and causing the soils to collapse. When the soils beneath coastal wetlands disappear, seawater invades even more quickly. Researchers in the FCE LTER are continuing long-term studies and experiments to understand how these changes influence ecosystem functions and services. They are also developing tools for resource managers to create an effective freshwater restoration program. The science team includes an active community of graduate students. As a group, they reach the public through education and outreach activities, and regularly advise policy-makers on resource management decisions. The FCE LTER research program addresses how changing fresh and marine supplies of water influence coastal ecosystem dynamics through: (i) continued long-term assessment of changes in biogeochemistry, primary production, organic matter, and trophic dynamics in ecosystems along freshwater-to-marine gradients, (ii) maintenance of existing in situ and ex situ long-term experiments, (iii) use of high-resolution remote sensing, coupled with models to forecast landscape-scale changes, (iv) addition of synoptic satellite sites to capture discrete spatio-temporal responses to episodic disturbance, and (v) initiation of new experimental manipulations to determine drivers and mechanisms of resilience to saltwater intrusion. Data syntheses integrate month-to-annual and inter-annual data into models of water, nutrients, carbon, and species dynamics throughout the Everglades landscape to compare how ecosystems with different productivities and carbon stores respond (maintain, increase, or decline) to short- (pulses) and long-term changes (presses) in hydrologic connectivity. Understanding and predicting the drivers of abrupt changes in ecosystems is a key challenge in ecosystem ecology.

Funding:

NSF DEB # 1832229

Additional Award Information:
Funder:National Science Foundation
Funder ID:https://ror.org/021nxhr62
Number:1832229
Title:LTER: Drivers of Abrupt Change in the Florida Coastal Everglades
URL:https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1832229
Related Project:
Title:LTER: Coastal Oligotrophic Ecosystem Research
Personnel:
Individual: John Kominoski
Organization:Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program
Address:
Florida International University,
11200 SW 8th St,
Miami, FL 33199 USA
Email Address:
jkominos@fiu.edu
Id:https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0978-3326
Role:Lead Principal Investigator
Individual: James Fourqurean
Organization:Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program
Email Address:
fourqure@fiu.edu
Role:Co-Principal Investigator
Individual: Evelyn Gaiser
Organization:Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program
Email Address:
gaisere@fiu.edu
Role:Co-Principal Investigator
Individual: Jennifer Rehage
Organization:Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program
Email Address:
rehagej@fiu.edu
Role:Co-Principal Investigator
Individual: Kevin Grove
Organization:Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program
Email Address:
kgrove@fiu.edu
Role:Co-Principal Investigator
Abstract:

Coastal ecosystems like the Florida Everglades provide many benefits and services to society including protection from storms, habitat and food for important fisheries, support of tourism and local economies, filtration of fresh water, and burial and storage of carbon that offsets greenhouse gas emissions. The Florida Coastal Everglades Long Term Ecological Research (FCE LTER) program addresses how and why coastal ecosystems and their services are changing. Like many coastal ecosystems, the Florida Everglades has been threatened by diversion of fresh water to support urban and agricultural expansion. At the same time, sea-level rise has caused saltwater intrusion of coastal ecosystems which stresses freshwater species, causes elevation loss, and contaminates municipal water resources. However, restoration of seasonal pulses of fresh water may counteract these threats. Researchers in the FCE LTER are continuing long-term studies and experiments to understand how changes in freshwater supply, sea-level rise, and disturbances like tropical storms interact to influence ecosystems and their services. The science team is guided by a diversity and inclusion plan to attract diverse scientists at all career stages. The team includes resource managers – who use discoveries and knowledge from the FCE LTER to guide effective freshwater restoration – and an active community of academic and agency scientists, teachers and other educators, graduate, undergraduate, and high school students. The project has a robust education and outreach program that engages the research team with the general public to advance science discoveries and protection of coastal ecosystems. The FCE LTER research program addresses how increased pulses of fresh and marine water will influence coastal ecosystem dynamics through: (i) continued long-term assessment of changes in biogeochemistry, primary production, organic matter, and trophic dynamics in ecosystems along freshwater-to-marine gradients with a focus on how these affect accumulation of carbon and related elevation change, (ii) meteorological studies that evaluate how the climate drivers of hydrologic presses and pulses are changing, (iii) social-ecological studies of how governance of freshwater restoration reflects the changing values of ecosystem services, and (iv) use of high-resolution remote sensing, coupled with models to forecast landscape-scale changes. A new experimental manipulation will determine drivers and mechanisms of resilience to saltwater intrusion. Data syntheses integrate month-to-annual and inter-annual data into models of water, nutrients, carbon, and species patterns and interactions throughout the Everglades landscape to compare how ecosystems with different productivities and carbon stores respond (maintain, increase, or decline) to short- (pulses) and long-term changes (presses) in hydrologic connectivity. Synthesis efforts will use data from national and international research networks aimed at understanding how chronic presses and increasing pulses determine ecosystem trajectories, addressing one of the most pressing challenges in contemporary ecology.

Funding:

NSF DEB # 2025954

Additional Award Information:
Funder:National Science Foundation
Funder ID:https://ror.org/021nxhr62
Number:2025954
Title:LTER: Coastal Oligotrophic Ecosystem Research
URL:https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2025954

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knb-lter-fce.1127.13: Added new data, updated metadata

knb-lter-fce.1127.12: Added new data, updated metadata

knb-lter-fce.1127.11: Added new Data

knb-lter-fce.1127.10: Added new Data

knb-lter-fce.1127.9: Added new Data

knb-lter-fce.1127.8: Corrected publication date in metadata

knb-lter-fce.1127.7: Added new Data

knb-lter-fce.1127.6: Added new Data

knb-lter-fce.1127.5: Added new Data

knb-lter-fce.1127.4: Added new Data

knb-lter-fce.1127.3: Added new Data

knb-lter-fce.1127.2: Added new Data download URL and new FCE III Project information

knb-lter-fce.1127.1: This is a long-term soils & sediments dataset. This dataset replaces five original files 1) LT_SS_Chambers_001; 2) LT_SS_Chambers_002; 3) LT_SS_Chambers_003; 4) LT_SS_Chambers_004 and 5) LT_SS_Chambers_005. In order to facilitate FCE data use, the files have been combined into one new PASTA ready file: LT_SS_Chambers_001. The FCE program is discontinuing its practice of versioning data as of March 2013.

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