Website

https://myfwc.com/media/11873/northern-big-bend.pdf

Region(s)

NW

Summary

Seagrass ecology, bay scallops and urchin density, water quality

Parameters

Seagrass and macroalgal cover by species, presence, number, density of bay scallops and sea urchins, epiphyte density on seagrass blades, bottom sediment type, light attenuation, transparency (secchi depth), turbidity, color, total suspended solids, and chlorophyll a, depth, water temperature, salinity, pH, dissolved oxygen

Notes

Per Laura Yarbro (25jan2021): The projects lost funding in 2019 and 2020. and are not expected to be re-activated.

Application

To provide scientists, resource managers, legislators, and other stakeholders a summary of the status of seagrasses in the northern Big Bend region of Florida.

Publications

Reports

Start

2002

End

2018

Frequency

Annual

Method

quadrats (10 x 0.25 m2) using a modification of the Braun- Blanquet technique (FWRI methods). Reported Seagrass and Macroalgal Cover Data are mean Braun Blanquet scores.

Discontinuity

number of sites monitored has ranged from 96 to more than 1,700, but since 2008, more than 1,200 quadrats (usually 10 quadrats per site). Per Laura Yarbro (25jan2021): The projects lost funding in 2019 and 2020. and are not expected to be re-activated.

Data Location

By Request

Data Format

Habitats

Submerged Aquatic Vegetation

SEACAR Citation

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC); Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI). (2018). Northern Big Bend Seagrass Monitoring. Updated 02/14/2021. Distributed by: SEACAR Data Discovery Interface, Office of Resilience and Coastal Protection, Florida Department of Environmental Protection. https://data.florida-seacar.org/programs/details/559

Alternative Citation

indicates priority attributes