thumbnail

Vegetative resistance to flow in South Florida: Summary of vegetation sampling at sites NESRS3 and P33, Shark River Slough, April 1996

Open-File Report 99-187
By: , , , , and 
https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr99187

Links

Abstract

The U.S. Geological Survey is one of many agencies participating in the effort to restore the south Florida Everglades. We are sampling and characterizing the vegetation at selected sites in the Everglades as part of a study to quantify vegetative flow resistance. The objectives of the vegetative sampling are (1) to provide detailed information on species composition, vegetative characteristics, vegetative structure, and biomass for quantification of vegetative resistance to flow, and (2) to use this information to classify the vegetation and to improve existing vegetation maps for use with numerical models of surface-water flow. Vegetative sampling was conducted in the Shark River Slough in April, 1996. The data collected and presented here include live, dead, and periphyton biomass, vegetation characteristics and structure, and leaf area index.

Suggested Citation

Vegetative resistance to flow in South Florida; summary of vegetation sampling at sites NESRS3 and P33, Shark River slough, April 1996; 1999; OFR; 99-187; Carter, Virginia; Ruhl, H. A.; Rybicki, N. B.; Reel, J. T.; Gammon, P. T.

ISSN: 2331-1258 (online)

Study Area

Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Vegetative resistance to flow in South Florida: Summary of vegetation sampling at sites NESRS3 and P33, Shark River Slough, April 1996
Series title Open-File Report
Series number 99-187
DOI 10.3133/ofr99187
Year Published 1999
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Contributing office(s) Caribbean-Florida Water Science Center
Description vi, 73 p.
Country United States
State Florida
Other Geospatial Everglades National Park, Shark River Slough
Google Analytic Metrics Metrics page
Additional publication details