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

Virginia Carter; Justin T. Reel; Nancy B. Rybicki; Henry A. Ruhl; Patricia T. Gammon; Jonathan K. Lee

doi:10.3133/ofr99218

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

Open-File Report 99-218

By: Virginia Carter, Justin T. Reel, Nancy B. Rybicki, Henry A. Ruhl, Patricia T. Gammon, and Jonathan K. Lee

https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr99218

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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 vegetation sampling are (1) to provide detailed information on species composition, vegetation characteristics, vegetation 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. Vegetation was sampled at two sites in the Shark River Slough in November, 1996. The data collected and presented here include those for live and dead standing sawgrass, other dead material, periphyton biomass, vegetation characteristics and structure, and leaf area index.

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Carter, V., Reel, J.T., Rybicki, N.B., Ruhl, H.A., Gammon, P.T., Lee, J.K., 1999, Vegetative resistance to flow in south Florida: Summary of vegetation sampling at sites NESRS3 and P33, Shark River Slough, November, 1996: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-218, vi, 90 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr99218.

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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, November, 1996
Series title	Open-File Report
Series number	99-218
DOI	10.3133/ofr99218
Year Published	1999
Language	English
Publisher	U.S. Geological Survey
Contributing office(s)	Caribbean-Florida Water Science Center
Description	vi, 90 p.
Country	United States
State	Florida
Other Geospatial	Everglades National Park, Shark River Slough