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Baseline data for a hydrological restoration of a mangrove forest near Goodland, Florida (2015 - 2017)

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

Vegetation survey of southwest Florida for use in assessment of the Picayune Strand Restoration Project effects

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

Soil surface elevation change data from rod surface elevation tables (rSET) from mangrove forests at Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge, Sanibel Island, Florida (2018-2022)

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.

Categories: Data; Tags: Ecology, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Sanibel Island, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... biota, mangrove, sea-level rise, surface elevation tables (SET), Fewer tags

Soil surface elevation change and vertical accretion data to support the Fruit Farm Creek Mangrove Restoration Project, Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Marco Island, Florida, 2015-2019

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

Comparison of mangrove extent from 2005 and 2014 of Ten Thousand Islands NWR, Florida, USA

This shapefile compares the approximate location of mangroves within the boundary of Ten Thousand Islands NWR in 2005 to their location in 2014.

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Collier County, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Southern Florida, Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge, All tags... USA, biota, Fewer tags