Research Ecologist
Wetland and Aquatic Research Center
Email:
staggc@usgs.gov
Office Phone:
337-266-8537
Fax:
337-266-8586
ORCID:
0000-0002-1125-7253
Location
WARC - Office/LAb Building
700 Cajundome Blvd.
Lafayette
, LA
70506
US
Supervisor:
Deborah M Epperson
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This dataset provides maps of biomass carbon (C) in gC/m2 of coastal herbaceous wetlands at a resolution of 30 m across the conterminous United States (CONUS) for 2015.
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The Mississippi River Deltaic Plain has extensive marsh habitats (fresh, intermediate, brackish, and saline) where soil cores were collected to a depth of 100 cm at 24 sites to assess long-term carbon accumulation rates and coast-wide burial rates. Each core was sectioned into 2-cm depth intervals, and select intervals were analyzed for percent moisture, bulk density, total carbon, and radionuclide (137Cs and 210Pb).
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In recent decades the encroachment of woody mangrove species into herbaceous marshes has been documented along the U.S. northern Gulf of Mexico coast. These species shifts have been attributed primarily to rising sea levels and warming winter temperatures, but the role of elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and water availability may become more prominent drivers of species interactions under future climate conditions. In this greenhouse study we examined the effects of CO2 concentration (ambient, elevated) and water regime (drought, saturated, flooded) on early growth of the mangrove species Avicennia germinans and Spartina alterniflora, a herbaceous grass.
Categories: Data;
Tags: Avicennia germinans,
Biota,
Botany,
Ecology,
Lafayette, La, All tags...
Louisiana,
Spartina alterniflora,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
atmospheric carbon dioxide,
drought,
greenhouse experiment,
greenhouse gases,
mangrove encroachment,
mangroves,
salt marshes,
species interactions,
vegetation,
water availability, Fewer tags
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We characterized coastal wetland responses to flooding stress by measuring vegetation cover, wetland elevation and water elevation in healthy and degrading wetlands dominated by Spartina patens. Wetland elevation was measured using real-time kinematic survey methods. Vegetation cover was determined by visual estimation methods, and water elevation was measured using in situ continuous recorders. In addition to these local-scale responses, we also measured landscape-scale patterns of land and water aggregation or fragmentation using remotely sensed data (Jones et al., 2018). Associated products: Jones, W.R., Hartley, S.B., Stagg, C.L., and Osland, M.J. 2018. Land-water classification for selected sites in McFaddin...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Grand Chenier,
Land Use Change,
Texas,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
aggregation, All tags...
ecological threshold,
flooding,
habitat fragmentation,
hydrologic characteristics of habitats,
wetlands, Fewer tags
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