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South Florida Coastal Water Quality Monitoring Network Quarterly Report (C-15397), Joseph N. Boyer

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Effect Of Hydrologic Restoration On The Habitat Of The Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow, Annual Report Of 2003-2004, Michael S. Ross, Jay P. Sah, Pablo L. Ruiz, David T. Jones, Hillary Cooley, Rafael Travieso, James R. Snyder, Sara Robinson

SERC Research Reports

Following on our previous year’s work on ‘Effect of hydrologic restoration on the habitat of the Cape Sable seaside sparrow (CSSS)’, we presented first year results at the Cape Sable seaside sparrow – fire planning workshop at Everglades National Park in December 2003. Later, with almost the same set of crews as in the previous year, we started field work in the first week of January and continued till May 26, 2004. Protocols for sampling topography and vegetation in 2004 were identical to the previous year. In the early season, we completed topographic surveys along two remaining transects, B and …

South Florida Coastal Water Quality Monitoring Network Quarterly Report (C-15397), Joseph N. Boyer

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Hydrologic Restoration Of The Biscayne Bay Coastal Wetlands: Mosquito And Drainage Ditch Inventory And Recommendations, Pablo L. Ruiz, Michael S. Ross

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The management and restoration of the Biscayne Bay Coastal Wetlands (BBCW) is a complex issue. Unlike other natural areas under the supervision of the National Park System, the BBCW had endured many years of neglect and abuse by homesteaders who, prior to the establishment of Biscayne National Monument in 1968, had free reign of the area and tried to farm and develop the land by ditching and infilling. Furthermore, public works projects, dating back to the early 1900’s for mosquito control, land reclamation, and storm surge protection along with homesteader activities have combined to compartmentalize the coastal wetlands of present …

Benthic Community Monitoring For The Little Venice Sewage Collection And Treatment Project In Marathon, Florida, Joseph N. Boyer, Danielle Mir-Gonzalez, Ronald Jones

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Distribution And Occurrence Of Inorganic And Organic Contaminants In Sediments And Whole Fish Tissue Of Everglades And Biscayne National Parks, Adolfo M. Fernandez

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study provides a detailed survey of the presence, concentration levels, and spatial distribution of organic and inorganic contaminants in sediment and tissue samples collected within Everglades and Biscayne National Parks. The results of these analyses revealed elevated concentrations of arsenic, and lead and chromium in Everglades National Park (ENP) sediments exceeding Potential Effects Levels (PEL) in 9, 5 and 5% of sediment samples and concentrations of nickel exceeding Threshold Effects Levels (TEL) in 5% of samples. In Biscayne National Park, arsenic exceeded TEL in 4400 of sediment samples. Organic analyses of ENP sediments revealed elevated concentrations of DDT and …

South Florida Coastal Water Quality Monitoring Network Quarterly Report (C-15397), Joseph N. Boyer

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Little Venice Water Quality Monitoring Project: Phase I Results, Joseph N. Boyer, Ronald Jones, Danielle Mir-Gonzalez

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Rainfall Variability In The Upper Napo River Basin, Ecuadorian Amazon, Marcelo Vicente Ayabaca

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this research was to investigate the influence of elevation and other terrain characteristics over the spatial and temporal distribution of rainfall. A comparative analysis was conducted between several methods of spatial interpolations using mean monthly precipitation values in order to select the best. Following those previous results it was possible to fit an Artificial Neural Network model for interpolation of monthly precipitation values for a period of 20 years, with input values such as longitude, latitude, elevation, four geomorphologic characteristics and anchored by seven weather stations, it reached a high correlation coefficient (r=0.85). This research demonstrated a …

South Florida Coastal Water Quality Monitoring Network Quarterly Report (C-15397), Joseph N. Boyer

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Palm Fuel Dynamics In Fire-Sustained Pine Forests In The Florida Keys, Hillary Clare Cooley

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In this study, the relationships between the time since last fire and the contributions of two palm species (Silverpalm, Coccothrinax argentata and Key Thatch Palm, Thrinax morrisii) to the burnable fuel load in the lower Florida Keys were examined. The population size distributions, effects of fire and plant size on mortality, annual growth rate, minimum reproductive size, and leaf moisture content of the palms were also determined.

Regression models were developed to estimate the live and attached dead burnable biomass for both palm species. Equations with crown area and number of leaves as independent variables best predicted the amount …

Little Venice Water Quality Monitoring Quarterly Report #11, Joseph N. Boyer

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South Florida Coastal Water Quality Monitoring Network Fy2004 Cumulative Report To The South Florida Water Management District (Contract No. C-15397), Joseph N. Boyer

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Fy2004 Annual Report Of The Water Quality Monitoring Project For The Water Quality Protection Program Of The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Joseph N. Boyer

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