Developing performance measures of mangrove wetlands using simulation models of hydrology, nutrient biogeochemistry, and community dynamics

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 21, Issue SPEC. ISS. 40, 2005, Pages 79-93

  Twilley, Robert R ^a,b   Rivera Monroy, Victor H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeochemistry; Environmental settings; Hydrogeomorphic; Hydrology; Mangroves; Nutrient cycling; Performance measures; Primary productivity; Shark River estuary; Vegetation analysis; Wetland restoration

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; HABITAT RESTORATION; MANGROVE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

AVES; CHONDRICHTHYES; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 15944386358     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. BOTKIN, D.B. 1993. Forest dynamics: An ecological model. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, Oxford, 328p.
2. BOYER, J.N.; FOURQUREAN, J.W. and JONES, R.D., 1997. Spatial characterization of water quality in Florida Bay and Whitewater Bay by multivariate analyses: zones of similar influence. Estuaries, 20, 743-758.
3. BRADSHAW, A.D., 1995. Alternatives endpoints for reclamation. In: CAIRNS, J. (ed.), Rehabilitating Damaged Ecosystems. Boca Raton, Florida: Lewis Publishers, pp. 165-185.
4. BRINSON, M.M., 1993. A hydrogeomorphic classification for wetlands. Vicksburg, Mississippi: US Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station, Technical Report WRP-DE-4, 101p.
5. BRINSON, M.M. and RHEINHARDT, R., 1996. The role of reference wetlands in functional assessment and mitigation. Ecological Applications, 6, 69-76.
6. CAHOON, D.R., 1994. Recent accretion in two managed marsh impoundments in coastal Louisiana. Ecological Applications, 4, 166-176.
7. CHEN, R. and TWILLEY, R.R., 1998. A gap dynamic model of mangrove forest development along gradients of soil salinity and nutrient resources. Journal of Ecology, 86, 37-52.
8. CHEN, R. and TWILLEY, R.R., 1999a. A simulation model of organic matter and nutrient accumulation in mangrove wetland soils. Biogeochemistry, 44, 93-118.
9. CHEN, R. and TWILLEY, R.R., 1999b. Patterns of mangrove forest structure associated with soil nutrient dynamics along the Shark River estuary. Estuaries, 22, 1027-1042.
10. CINTRÓN, G., 1990. Restoration of mangrove systems. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Symposium on Habitat Restoration,. (Washington, D.C.), 68p.
11. CINTRÓN, G. and SCHAEFFER-NOVELLI, Y., 1984a. Methods for studying mangrove structure. In: SNEDAKER, S.C. and SNEDAKER, J.G. (eds.), The Mangrove Ecosystem: Research Methods. Burgay, United Kingdom: UNESCO, pp. 91-113.
12. CINTRÓN, G. and SCHAEFFER-NOVELLI, Y., 1984b. Caracteristicas y desarrollo estructural de los manglares de Norte y Sur America. Programa Regional de Desarrollo Cientifico y Tecnologico, 25, 4-15.
13. CLARK, M.J., 1997. Ecological restoration - the magnitude of the challenge: an outsider's view. In: URBANSKE, K.M.; WEBB, N.R. and EDWARDS, P.J. (eds.), Restoration Ecology and Sustainable Development. Cambridge, United Kingdom: University Press., pp. 353-377.
14. CORMIER, N., 2003. Belowground Productivity in Mangrove Forests of Pohnpei and Kosrae, Federated States of Micronesia. Lafayette, Louisiana: University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Master's thesis. 117p.
15. DETTMANN, E.H., 2001. Effect of water residence time on annual export and denitrification of nitrogen in estuaries: A model analysis. Estuaries, 24, 481-490.
16. ELLISON, A.M., 2000. Mangrove restoration: do we know enough? Restoration Ecology, 8, 219-229.
17. FIELD, C.D., (ed), 1996. Restoration of Mangrove Ecosystems. Okinawa, Japan: International Society for Mangrove Ecosystems, 250p.
18. GOSSELINK, J.G. and TURNER, R.E., 1978 The role of hydrology in freshwater wetland ecosystems. In: GOOD, R.E.; WHIGHAM, D.F., and SIMPSON, R.L. (eds.), Freshwater Wetlands: Ecological Processes and Management Potential. New York: Academic, pp. 63-78.
19. KENTULA, M.E.; BROOKS, R.P.; GWIN, S.E.; HOLLAND, C.C.; SHERMAN, A.D. and SIFNEOS, J.C., 1993. An approach to improving decision making in wetland restoration and creation. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, 151p.
20. LEWIS, R.R., 1982. Mangrove forests, In: LEWIS, R.R. (ed.), Creation and Restoration of Coastal Plant Communities. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, pp. 153-171.
21. LEWIS, R.R., 1990a. Creation and restoration of coastal plain wetlands in Florida. In: KUSLER, J.A. and KENTULA, M.E. (eds.), Wetland Creation and Restoration. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, pp. 73-101
22. LEWIS, R.R., 1990b. Creation and restoration of coastal wetlands in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In: KUSLER, J.A. and KENTULA, M.E. (eds.), Wetland Creation and Restoration. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, pp. 103-123.
23. LUGO, A.E. and SNEDAKER, S.C., 1974. The ecology of mangroves. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 5, 39-64.
24. 210Pb methods. Estuaries, 12, 284-299.
25. MACNAE, W., 1968. A general account of the fauna and flora of mangrove swamps and forests in the IndoWest-Pacific region. Advanced Marine Biology, 6, 73-270.
26. MANGERA, E.P., 2003. The Contribution of Mangrove Outwelling to Coastal Food Webs as a Function of Environmental Settings. Lafayette, Louisiana: University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Ph.D. thesis., 191p.
27. MITSCH, W.J.; DAY, J.W.; GILLIAM, W.; GROFFMAN, P.M.; HEY, D.L.; RANDALL, G.L. and WANG, N., 2001. Reducing nitrogen loading to the Gulf of Mexico from the Mississippi River basin: Strategies to counter a persistent ecological problem. Bioscience, 51, 373-388.
28. MILLER, R.L. and MCPHERSON, B.F., 1991. Estimating estuarine flushing and residence times in Charlotte Harbor, Florida, via salt balance and a box model. Limnology and Oceanography, 36, 602-612.
29. MORRIS, J.T. and BOWDEN, W.B., 1986. A mechanistic, numerical model of sedimentation, mineralization, and decomposition for marsh sediments. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 50, 96-105.
30. PARTON, W.J.; STEWART, J.W.B. and COLE, C.V., (1988). Dynamics of C, N, P, and S in grassland soils: a model. Biogeochemistry, 5, 109-131.
31. RIVERA-MONROY, V.H.; TORRES, L.A.; NIXON, B.; NEWMARK, F. and TWILLEY, R.R., 1999. The potential use of mangrove forests as nitrogen sinks of shrimp aquaculture pond effluents: The role of denitrification. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society, 30, 12-25.
32. ROSS, M.S.; MEEDER, J.F.; SAH, J.P.; RUIZ, P.L. and TELESNICKI, G., 2000. The southeast saline Everglades revisited: Fifty years of coastal vegetation change. Journal of Vegetation Science, 11, 101-112.
33. SHUGART, H.H. 1984. A theory of forest dynamics: The ecological implications of forest succession models. New York: Springer-Verlag..
34. SKLAR, F.H.; FITZ, H.C.; WU, Y.; VAN ZEE, R. and MCVOY, C., 2001. The design of ecological landscape models for Everglades restoration. Ecological Economics, 37, 379-401.
35. SMITH, T.J., III. 1987. Seed predation in relation to tree dominance and distribution in mangrove forests. Ecology, 68, 266-273.
36. SMITH, T.J., III. 1992. Forest structure. In: A.I. ROBERTSON and D.M. ALONGI, (eds.). Tropical mangrove ecosystems. American Geophysical Union, Washington D.C., pp. 101-136
37. SNEDAKER, S.C. and SNEDAKER, J.G. (eds). 1984. The mangrove ecosystem: research methods. Unesco/SCOR, Chaucer Press Ltd. Bungay, United Kingdom. 251 pp.
38. SNEDAKER, S.C. and BIBER, P.D., 1996. Restoration of mangroves in the United States of America: a case study in Florida,. In C. FIELD (ed.), Restoration of mangrove ecosystems. International Society for Mangrove Ecosystems, Okinawa, Japan. South China Printing Co. Ltd., Hong Kong, pp. 170-188.
39. TEAS, H.J. 1981. Restoration of mangrove ecosystems. In: R.C. CAREY, P.S. MARKOVITS and J.B. KIRKWOOD (eds). Proceedings of Workshop on Coastal Ecosystems of the Southeastern United States. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Office of Biological Services, FWS/OBS-80/59, pp. 95-103.
40. THAYER, G.W.; COLBY, D.R. and HETTLER, W.F., JR., 1987. Utilization of the red mangrove prop root habitat by fishes in south Florida. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 35, 25-38.
41. THOM, B.G. 1982. Mangrove ecology - a geomorphological perspective, In: B.F. CLOUGH (ed.), Mangrove Ecosystems in Australia. Australian National University Press, Canberra, pp 3-17.
42. THOM, B.G. 1984. Coastal landforms and geomorphic processes. In: S.C. SNEDAKER and J.G. SNEDAKER(eds.), The Mangrove Ecosystem: Research Methods. Unesco, United Kingdom, pp. 3-17.
43. THOMAS, T.M. 1974. A detailed analysis of climatological and hydrological records of south Florida with reference to man's influence upon ecosystem evolution. In: P.J. GLEASON (ed.), Environments of South Florida: Present and Past, Memoir 2. Miami, Florida: Miami Geological Society, pp. 82-122.
44. TILMAN, D. 1982. Resource competition and community structure. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 296p.
45. TWILLEY, R.R.; CHEN, R.H. and HARGIS, T., 1992. Carbon sinks in mangroves and their implications to carbon budget of tropical coastal ecosystems. Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 64, 265-288.
46. TWILLEY, R.R., 1995. Properties of mangrove ecosystems related to the energy signature of coastal environments. In: C. HALL (ed.), Maximum Power. Boulder, Colorado: University of Colorado Press, pp. 43-62.
47. TWILLEY, R.R. 1997. Mangrove wetlands, In: M. MESSINA and W. CONNOR (eds.), Southern Forested Wetlands: Ecology and Management. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, pp. 445-473.
48. TWILLEY, R.R. and CHEN, R., 1998. A water budget and hydrology model of a basin mangrove forest in Rookery Bay, Florida. Australian Journal of Freshwater and Marine Research, 49, 309-323.
49. TWILLEY, R.R.; GOTTFRIED, R.R.; RIVERA-MONROY, V.H.; ARMIJOS, M.M. and BODERO, A., 1998. An approach and preliminary model of integrating ecological and economic constraints of environmental quality in the Guayas River estuary, Ecuador. Environmental Science and Policy, 1, 271-288.
50. TWILLEY, R.R.; RIVERA-MONROY, V.H.; CHEN, R. and BOTERO, L., 1999. Adapting an ecological mangrove model to simulate trajectories in restoration ecology. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 37, 404-419.
51. YÁÑEZ-ARANCIBIA, A.; LARA-DOMINGUEZ, A.L.; ROJAS-GALAVIZ, J.L.; SÁNCHEZ-GIL, P.; DAY, J.W. and MADDEN, C.J., 1988. Seasonal biomass and diversity of estuarine fishes coupled with tropical habitat heterogeneity (southern Gulf of Mexico). Journal of Fish Biology, 33 (Suppl. A), 191-200.
52. YÁÑEZ-ARANCIBIA, A.; LARA-DOMÍNGUEZ, A.L. and DAY, J.W., 1993. Interactions between mangrove and sea-grass habitats mediated by estuarine nekton assemblages: coupling of primary and secondary production. Hydrobiologia, 264, 1-12.
53. WOODROFFE, C. 1992. Mangrove sediments and geomorphology. In: A.I. ROBERTSON and D.M. ALONGI, (eds.), Tropical Mangrove Ecosystems. Washington, D. C.: American Geophysical Union, pp. 7-42.
54. ZEDLER, J.B. 2001. Introduction. In: J.B. ZEDLER (ed.), Restoring Tidal Wetlands. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, pp. 1-17