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Water source utilization and nutrient status in tree islands in Shark River Slough, Everglades National Park. Tree island sites. Profile of a tree island. Vegetation zones on a tree island - Chekika. Emergent Hardwoods. Floodtolerant veg. Sawgrass/Slough. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Water source utilization and nutrient status in tree islands in Shark River Slough,
Everglades National Park
Tree island sites
Profile of a tree island
Vegetation zones on a tree island - Chekika
Emergent Hardwoods
Floodtolerant veg.
Sawgrass/Slough
Wet season: Two POSSIBLE water sources in tree islands
1. Soilwater – rain trapped in leaf litter – NUTRIENT RICH2. Regional surface/groundwater – NUTRIENT POOR
These two sources can be ISOTOPICALLY DISTINCT
Evaporating pool of water = enriched in heavy isotopeAllows for differentiating pools of water
Water(H2O):
Hydrogen has 2 isotopes – 1H (lighter) and 2H (heavier)
Oxygen has two major isotopes -- 16O (lighter) and 18O (heavier)
Stable isotopes of water
10001‰)(tan
xRR
dards
sample
D (o
/oo)
WAT
ER
18O (o/oo) WATER
D=(8*
18 O)+10 Meteoric
Water
Soil Water
Wet
Dry
WetDry
Fig 3b. Blue dots indicate sampling stations on tree island.Yellow and orange dots represent actual trees sampledaround station.
ENP Tree Islands - sites and methods
• Nutrient sampling: every 2 months for 1 year
• Foliar N and P
• Water sampling: for 1 year-Rainwater on Grossman Hammock
-Soil water (organic horizon) ( every 2 months )
-Plant stem water ( every 2 months )• Cryogenic distillation of soil and stem
water• Isotopic analysis on mass
spectrometer
Chekika – airboat/helicopterSatinLeaf – airboat/on footGrossman Hammock – car/foot
Per island:20 upland plants30 lowland plants:1. Sawgrass-flooded ecotone2. Flooded – hammock ecotone
Results so far… Chekika
nov plant stem waters
-50.0
-40.0
-30.0
-20.0
-10.0
0.0
10.0
20.0
30.0
-8.0 -6.0 -4.0 -2.0 0.0 2.0 4.0
O18
2H
SL1 flooded
SL2 f looded
upland hardw oods
rain
met w ater line
acknowledgementsLeo Sternberg - advisorFernando Miralles-Wilhelm (FIU) – PI on NSF Biocomplexity ProjectMike Ross (FIU) – collaboration and logistics on tree islands
Fieldwork and LabworkPablo Ruiz, Mike Klein, Brooke Shamblin, Daniel Gomez, Diane, Jeanette, Astrid, Anita , Daniel Ramirez, John Cozza, Eric, Hao, Patrick Ellsworth, Xin Wang, Patricia, Maria Camila Pinzon, Cassandra
My committee – Don DeAngelis, David Janos, Leo Sternberg, Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm
Funding: NSF Biocomplexity in the Environment project
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