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Photos from the Field:
FCE LTER Flora and Fauna
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The Florida Coastal Everglades (FCE) LTER Program is part of the
Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network
established by the National Science Foundation in 1980. The FCE LTER Program was established in May of 2000 in south Florida, where a rapidly
growing population of over 6 million people live in close proximity to - and in
dependence upon - the Florida Everglades. The program is based at
Florida International University
and includes 63 senior scientists
and 42 students
from 27 institutions.
Research Focus
FCE research focuses on an area where freshwater and estuarine vegetation mix, or
the "oligohaline ecotone". FCE
researchers study how hydrology, climate, and human activities affect ecosystem and
population dynamics in the ecotone and more broadly, the Florida Coastal Everglades.
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Primary Production
Working Group
What are we studying?
We measure the production of the dominant plants (sawgrass, periphyton,
mangroves, and seagrass). We relate
primary production
to water flow, salinity and nutrient availability.
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