Website

Region(s)

NE

Summary

The Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve (GTM NERR) is biogeographically positioned at the ecotone of two different emergent vegetation habitats: salt marsh (dominated by smooth cordgrass, Spartina alterniflora) and mangroves (dominated by black mangroves, Avicennia germinans) (Zomlefer et al. 2006; Frazel 2009). As such, the primary goal of this project is to conduct long-term monitoring of mangroves in emergent intertidal habitats within the GTM NERR to provide a better understanding of the ecological characteristics of this dynamic community and discern the impacts of local and global environmental changes on the estuarine ecosystem.

Parameters

species composition, percent cover (%), canopy ht (cm), trunk diameter (mm), stem density (#/m^2), widest axis (cm), narrowest axis (cm)

Notes

Application

Publications

Start

2012

End

Current

Frequency

Semiannual

Method

shore-to-upland transects with evenly-spaced whole plots and subplots

Discontinuity

Data Location

By request from Nikki Dix (Nikki.Dix@floridadep.gov)

Data Format

excel

Habitats

Coastal Wetlands

SEACAR Citation

Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), Office of Resilience and Coastal Protection (RCP), Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve (GTMNERR). (2022). GTMNERR Mangrove Monitoring. Updated 07/02/2024. Distributed by: SEACAR Data Discovery Interface, Office of Resilience and Coastal Protection, Florida Department of Environmental Protection. https://data.florida-seacar.org/programs/details/5015

Alternative Citation

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