Hurricane‐Induced Changes in the Everglades National Park Mangrove Forest: Landsat Observations Between 1985 and 2017

Xingxing Han; Lian Feng; Chuanmin Hu; Philip Kramer

doi:10.1029/2018jg004501

Hurricane‐Induced Changes in the Everglades National Park Mangrove Forest: Landsat Observations Between 1985 and 2017

Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ◽

10.1029/2018jg004501 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 123 (11) ◽

pp. 3470-3488 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Xingxing Han ◽

Lian Feng ◽

Chuanmin Hu ◽

Philip Kramer

Keyword(s):

Mangrove Forest ◽

National Park ◽

Everglades National Park ◽

Induced Changes

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Controls on mangrove forest-atmosphere carbon dioxide exchanges in western Everglades National Park

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ◽

10.1029/2009jg001186 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 115 (G2) ◽

pp. n/a-n/a ◽

Cited By ~ 71

Author(s):

Jordan G. Barr ◽

Vic Engel ◽

José D. Fuentes ◽

Joseph C. Zieman ◽

Thomas L. O'Halloran ◽

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Keyword(s):

Carbon Dioxide ◽

Mangrove Forest ◽

National Park ◽

Everglades National Park

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A Tropical Cyclone-Induced Ecological Regime Shift: Mangrove Forest Conversion to Mudflat in Everglades National Park (Florida, USA)

Wetlands ◽

10.1007/s13157-020-01291-8 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 40 (5) ◽

pp. 1445-1458 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Michael J. Osland ◽

Laura C. Feher ◽

Gordon H. Anderson ◽

William C. Vervaeke ◽

Ken W. Krauss ◽

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Keyword(s):

Tropical Cyclone ◽

Mangrove Forest ◽

National Park ◽

Regime Shift ◽

Everglades National Park ◽

Forest Conversion ◽

Ecological Regime

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The Everglades National Park and Big Cypress National Preserve vegetation mapping project: Interim report—Northwest Coastal Everglades (Region 4), Everglades National Park (revised with costs)

10.36967/nrr-2279586 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Pablo Ruiz ◽

Craig Perry ◽

Alejando Garcia ◽

Magali Guichardot ◽

Michael Foguer ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mangrove Forest ◽

National Park ◽

Grid Cell ◽

The United States ◽

Vegetation Mapping ◽

South Florida ◽

Everglades National Park ◽

The South ◽

Vegetation Map ◽

National Preserve

The Everglades National Park and Big Cypress National Preserve vegetation mapping project is part of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP). It is a cooperative effort between the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD), the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), and the National Park Service’s (NPS) Vegetation Mapping Inventory Program (VMI). The goal of this project is to produce a spatially and thematically accurate vegetation map of Everglades National Park and Big Cypress National Preserve prior to the completion of restoration efforts associated with CERP. This spatial product will serve as a record of baseline vegetation conditions for the purpose of: (1) documenting changes to the spatial extent, pattern, and proportion of plant communities within these two federally-managed units as they respond to hydrologic modifications resulting from the implementation of the CERP; and (2) providing vegetation and land-cover information to NPS park managers and scientists for use in park management, resource management, research, and monitoring. This mapping project covers an area of approximately 7,400 square kilometers (1.84 million acres [ac]) and consists of seven mapping regions: four regions in Everglades National Park, Regions 1–4, and three in Big Cypress National Preserve, Regions 5–7. The report focuses on the mapping effort associated with the Northwest Coastal Everglades (NWCE), Region 4 , in Everglades National Park. The NWCE encompasses a total area of 1,278 square kilometers (493.7 square miles [sq mi], or 315,955 ac) and is geographically located to the south of Big Cypress National Preserve, west of Shark River Slough (Region 1), and north of the Southwest Coastal Everglades (Region 3). Photo-interpretation was performed by superimposing a 50 × 50-meter (164 × 164-feet [ft] or 0.25 hectare [0.61 ac]) grid cell vector matrix over stereoscopic, 30 centimeters (11.8 inches) spatial resolution, color-infrared aerial imagery on a digital photogrammetric workstation. Photo-interpreters identified the dominant community in each cell by applying majority-rule algorithms, recognizing community-specific spectral signatures, and referencing an extensive ground-truth database. The dominant vegetation community within each grid cell was classified using a hierarchical classification system developed specifically for this project. Additionally, photo-interpreters categorized the absolute cover of cattail (Typha sp.) and any invasive species detected as either: Sparse (10–49%), Dominant (50–89%), or Monotypic (90–100%). A total of 178 thematic classes were used to map the NWCE. The most common vegetation classes are Mixed Mangrove Forest-Mixed and Transitional Bayhead Shrubland. These two communities accounted for about 10%, each, of the mapping area. Other notable classes include Short Sawgrass Marsh-Dense (8.1% of the map area), Mixed Graminoid Freshwater Marsh (4.7% of the map area), and Black Mangrove Forest (4.5% of the map area). The NWCE vegetation map has a thematic class accuracy of 88.4% with a lower 90th Percentile Confidence Interval of 84.5%.

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