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Mangrove restoration has a strong potential to enhance the services provided by coastal wetlands on a number of Department of the Interior (DOI) managed lands throughout the southeastern United States of America. Services include storm protection, water quality improvement, and biological carbon sequestration. Forest structural attributes including basal area, tree height, and stem density by species are used to calculate above ground biomass and above ground productivity. Percent cover is used to asses the forest canopy health. The data collected for the soils are: bulk density, percent total Nitrogen, percent total Carbon, and selected samples percent total Phosporus. The forest structure plots were placed in...
Categories: Data;
Types: Citation;
Tags: Avicennia germinans,
Carbon,
Collier County,
Conocarpus erectus,
Ecology, All tags...
Environmental Health,
Florida,
Goodland,
Laguncularia racemosa,
Nitrogen,
Phosphorus,
Rhizophora mangle,
USA,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
bulk density,
diameter at breast height (dbh),
mangrove,
percent cover,
soils,
spherical densiometer,
tree height, Fewer tags
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This release consists of vegetation data collected across an environmental gradient at Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge (TTI NWR) near Naples, Florida, USA. The refuge is within the impact area of the Picayune Strand Restoration Project (PSRP), a large-scale hydrologic restoration project in southwest Florida that was authorized by the U.S. Congress in 2007. Vegetation transects were located in the following wetland types on the refuge: brackish marsh, salt marsh, and transition marsh. Data from vegetation transects established in nearby areas outside of the PSRP impact area, in Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park (FSPSP) and Big Cypress National Preserve (BICY), are also included. The study spanned...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Big Cypress National Preserve,
Botany,
Brackish Marsh,
Copeland,
Ecology, All tags...
Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park,
Florida,
Low and Intermediate Salt Marsh,
Naples,
Ochopee,
Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
United States,
biota,
estuarine ecosystems,
vegetation,
wetland ecosystems, Fewer tags
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This study monitored soil surface elevation change from mangrove forests fertilized with nitrogen and phosphorus from 2018-2021. The mangroves selected at Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) have been previously exposed to high nutrient loading from agricultural discharge into the Caloosahatchee River, which elevated soil phosphorus levels to 3-4 times ambient before treatments were impose. Sea-level rise vulnerability with additional nitrogen and phosphorus is a concern for these mangrove ecosystems.
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These data represent surface elevation change and vertical accretion time series collected from a series of degraded tidal wetland sites near Goodland, Florida, USA. Surface elevation was measured using a combination of rod surface elevation tables (SETs) and feldspar marker horizons. Here, we document mangrove forest and soil structural changes within transects established in tidally restricted areas on Marco Island (Collier County, Florida, USA), which has broad swaths of dead-standing or unhealthy mangroves. Original data were collected in January 2015, and re-collected in August 2015, January 2016, July 2016, January 2017, June 2018 and June 2019.
Categories: Data;
Tags: Collier County,
Florida,
Goodland,
Land Use Change,
Marco Island, All tags...
USA,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
accretion,
elevation,
shoreline accretion, Fewer tags
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Winter climate change has the potential to have a large impact on coastal wetlands in the southeastern U.S. Warmer winter temperatures and reductions in the intensity of freeze events would likely lead to mangrove forest range expansion and salt marsh displacement in parts of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic coast. The objective of this research was to better understand some of the ecological implications of mangrove forest migration and salt marsh displacement. The potential ecological effects of mangrove migration are diverse ranging from important biotic impacts (e.g., coastal fisheries, land bird migration; colonial nesting wading birds) to ecosystem stability (e.g., response to sea level rise and drought;...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Cedar Key,
Data,
Forests,
Grasslands and Plains,
Gulf of Mexico, All tags...
Landscapes,
Port Aransas,
Port Fourchon,
Sea-Level Rise and Coasts,
Southeast CASC,
State of Florida,
State of Louisiana,
State of Texas,
United States of America,
Water, Coasts and Ice,
Wetlands,
environment,
shear strength,
shear strength,
soil,
soil, Fewer tags
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