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  • Periphyton, hydrological and environmental data in a coastal freshwater wetland (FCE), Florida Everglades National Park, USA (2014-2015)
  • Mazzei, Viviana; Ph.D. candidate; Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program
    Gaiser, Evelyn; Primary Investigator; Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program
  • 2018-02-22
  • Mazzei, V. and E. Gaiser. 2018. Periphyton, hydrological and environmental data in a coastal freshwater wetland (FCE), Florida Everglades National Park, USA (2014-2015) ver 2. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/4e6dc2b1aab5c02c224a27c2eaff2e82 (Accessed 2024-04-27).

  • The characteristic, calcareous periphyton mats of the Everglades, and particularly their diatom assemblages, provide an ideal community to study the patterns and mechanisms of community assembly along environmental gradients with ecotones. Understanding patterns and mechanisms of diatom community assembly along salinity and P gradients can be incorporated into tools for predicting changes in these gradients, and the location and movement of the "white zone" ecotone, caused by saltwater intrusion and water management outcomes in the Southern Everglades. Patterns of environmental variation and periphytic-diatom community structure along the freshwater-marine gradient of Everglades National Park, FL., USA were examined by sampling along a series of 7 transects extending from oligotrophic, freshwater marshes through the ecotone and down to the northern edge of the fringing mangrove forests. Seven transects spanning the west-east extent of the southeast Everglades, from the Main Park Road in the west to the Model Lands in the east, were sampled once in the dry season (May) and once in the wet season (November) of 2014 and 2015.

    These data are published in "Mazzei and Gaiser. 2018. Diatoms as tools for inferring ecotone boundaries in a coastal freshwater wetland threatened by saltwater intrusion. Ecological Indicators. 88:190-204."

  • Geographic Coordinates
    • N: 25.761, S: 24.913, E: -80.49, W: -81.078
    • N: 25.761, S: 24.913, E: -80.49, W: -81.078
  • knb-lter-fce.1216.2  (Uploaded 2018-02-23)  
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  • https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/4e6dc2b1aab5c02c224a27c2eaff2e82
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