Periphyton responses to eutrophication in the Florida Everglades: Cross-system patterns of structural and compositional change

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 51, Issue 1 II, 2006, Pages 617-630

  Gaiser, Evelyn E ^a   Childers, Daniel L ^a   Jones, Ronald D ^a,b   Richards, Jennifer H ^a   Scinto, Leonard J ^a   Trexler, Joel C ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EUTROPHICATION; PERIPHYTON; WETLAND;

EVERGLADES; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 32944475757     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2006.51.1_part_2.0617     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (35)

1. BIRKS, H. J. B., J. M. LINE, S. JUGGINS, A. C. STEVENSON, AND C. J. F. TER BRAAK. 1990. Diatoms and pH reconstruction. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 327: 263-278.
2. CHIANG, C., C. B. CRAFT, D. W. ROGERS, AND C. J. RICHARDSON. 2000. Effects of 4 years of nitrogen and phosphorus additions on Everglades plant communities. Aquat. Bot. 68: 61-78.
3. CHILDERS, D. L., R. F. DOREN, G. B. NOE, M. RUGGE, AND L. J. SCINTO. 2003. Decadal change in vegetation and soil phosphorus patterns across the Everglades landscape. J. Environ. Qual. 32: 344-362.
4. _, AND OTHERS. 2001. Quantifying the effects of low level phosphorus enrichment on unimpacted Everglades wetlands with in situ flumes and phosphorus dosing, p. 127-152. In J. W. Porter and K. G. Porter [eds.], The Everglades, Florida Bay, and coral reefs of the Florida Keys: An ecosystem sourcebook. CRC.
5. CLARKE, K. R., AND R. N. GORLEY. 2001. PRIMER v. 5: User manual/tutorial. PRIMER-E.
6. COOPER, S. R., J. HUVANE, P. VAITHIYANATHAN, AND C. J. RICHARDSON. 1999. Calibration of diatoms along a nutrient gradient in Florida Everglades Water Conservation Area-2A, USA. J. Paleolimnol. 22: 413-437.
7. DONG, Q., P. V. MCCORMICK, F. H. SKLAR, AND D. L. DEANGELIS. 2002. Structural instability, multiple stable states, and hysteresis in periphyton driven by phosphorus enrichment in the Everglades. Theor. Popul. Biol. 61: 1-13.
8. DOREN, R. F., T. V. ARMENTANO, L. D. WHITEAKER, AND R. D. JONES. 1997. Marsh vegetation patterns and soil phosphorus gradients in the Everglades ecosystem. Aquat. Bot. 56: 145-163.
9. GAISER, E. E., L. J. SCINTO, J. H. RICHARDS, K. JAYACHANDRAN, D. L. CHILDERS, J. D. TREXLER, AND R. D. JONES. 2004. Phosphorus in periphyton mats provides best metric for detecting low-level P enrichment in an oligotrophic wetland. Water Res. 38: 507-516.
10. _, AND OTHERS. 2005. Cascading ecological effects of low-level phosphorus enrichment in the Florida Everglades. J. Environ. Qual. 34: 717-723.
11. GLEASON, P. J., AND P. STONE. 1994. Age, origin and landscape evolution of the Everglades peatland, p. 149-197. In S. M. Davis and J. C. Ogden [eds.], Everglades: The ecosystem and its restoration. St. Lucie.
12. GUNDERSON, L. H. 1994. Vegetation of the Everglades: Determinants of community composition, p. 323-340. In S. M. Davis and J. C. Ogden [eds.], Everglades: The ecosystem and its restoration. St. Lucie.
13. HASLE, G., AND G. FRYXELL. 1970. Diatoms: Cleaning and mounting for light and electron microscopy. Trans. Am. Microsc. Soc. 89: 470-474.
14. HAVENS, K. E., T. L. EAST, S. HWANG, A. J. RODUSKY, B. SHARFSTEIN, AND A. D. STEINMAN. 1999. Algal responses to experimental nutrient addition in the littoral community of a subtropical lake. Freshwater Biol. 42: 329-344.
15. HILL, B. H., A. T. HERLIHY, P. R. KAUFMANN, R. J. STEVENSON, F. H. MCCORMICK, AND C. B. JOHNSON. 2000. The use of periphyton assemblage data as an index of biotic integrity. J. North Am. Benthol. Soc. 19: 50-67.
16. HUDSON, J. J., W. D. TAYLOR, AND D. W. SCHINDLER. 2000. Phosphate concentrations in lakes. Nature 406: 54-55.
17. JUGGINS, S. 2003. C2 user guide: Software for ecological and palaeoecological data analysis and visualization. Univ. of Newcastle.
18. KADLEC, R. H., AND R. L. KNIGHT. 1996. Treatment wetlands. Lewis.
19. KRUSKAL, J. B., AND M. WISH. 1978. Multidimensional scaling. Sage.
20. MCCORMICK, P. A., AND R. J. STEVENSON. 1998. Periphyton as a tool for ecological assessment and management in the Florida Everglades. J. Phycol. 4: 726-733.
21. MCCORMICK, P. V., R. S. RAWLICK, K. LURDING, E. P. SMITH, AND F. H. SKLAR. 1996. Periphyton-water quality relationships along a nutrient gradient in the northern Florida Everglades. J. North Am. Benthol. Soc. 15: 433-449.
22. NEWMAN, S., P. V. MCCORMICK, AND J. G. BACKUS. 2003. Phosphatase activity as an early warning indicator of wetland eutrophication: Problems and prospects. J. Appl. Phycol. 15: 45-59.
23. NOE, G. B., D. L. CHILDERS, AND R. D. JONES. 2001. Phosphorus biogeochemistry and the impact of phosphorus enrichment: Why is the Everglades so unique? Ecosystems 4: 603-624.
24. _, L. J. SCINTO, J. TAYLOR, D. CHILDERS, AND R. D. JONES. 2003. Phosphorus cycling and partitioning in an oligotrophic Everglades wetland ecosystem: A radioisotope tracing study. Freshwater Biol. 48: 1993-2008.
25. _, AND OTHERS. 2002. Short-term changes in phosphorus storage in an oligotrophic Everglades wetland ecosystem receiving experimental nutrient enrichment. Biogeochemistry 59: 239-267.
26. PAN, Y., R. J. STEVENSON, P. VAITHIYANATHAN, J. SLATE, AND C. J. RICHARDSON. 2000. Changes in algal assemblages along observed and experimental phosphorus gradients in a subtropical wetland, U.S.A. Freshwater Biol. 44: 339-353.
27. RASCHKE, R. L. 1993. Diatom (Bacillariophyta) community response to phosphorus in the Everglades National Park, USA. Phycologia 32: 48-58.
28. REJMÁNKOVÁ, E. 2001. Effect of experimental phosphorus enrichment on oligotrophic tropical marshes in Belize, Central America. Plant Soil 236: 33-53.
29. RICHARDSON, C. J., AND S. S. QIAN. 1999. Long-term phosphorus assimilative capacity in freshwater wetlands: A new paradigm for sustaining ecosystem structure and function. Environ. Sci. Technol. 33: 1545-1551.
30. SCINTO, L. J., AND K. R. REDDY. 2003. Biotic and abiotic uptake of phosphorus by periphyton in a subtropical freshwater wetland. Aquat. Bot. 77: 203-222.
31. SLATE, J. E., AND R. J. STEVENSON. 2000. Recent and abrupt environmental change in the Florida Everglades indicated from siliceous microfossils. Wetlands 20: 346-356.
32. SMITH, E. P., AND P. V. MCCORMICK. 2001. Long-term relationship between phosphorus inputs and wetland phosphorus concentrations in a northern Everglades marsh. Environ. Monit. Assess. 68: 153-176.
33. SOLORZANO, L., AND J. H. SHARP. 1980. Determination of total dissolved P and particulate P in natural waters. Limnol. Oceanogr. 25: 754-758.
34. STEVENSON, R. J. 2001. Using algae to assess wetlands with multivariate statistics, multimetric indices, and an ecological risk assessment framework, p. 113-140. In R. R. Rader, D. P. Batzer, and S. A. Wissinger [eds.], Biomonitoring and management of North American freshwater wetlands. Wiley.
35. U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY. 1983. Methods for chemical analysis of water and wastes. Revision March 83, method 365.1. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.