South Florida Fisheries Habitat Assessment Program (FHAP-SF)

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Latest version published by United States Geological Survey on Jun 22, 2022 United States Geological Survey
Publication date:
22 June 2022
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

The South Florida Fisheries Habitat Assessment Program (FHAP-SF) provides spatially explicit information on inter-annual variability in seagrass communities and establishes a baseline for understanding ecosystem responses to environmental fluctuation, perturbation and Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP)-associated, water-management alterations. Specifically, FHAP-SF documents the status and trends of benthic macrophyte distribution, abundance, and species composition in Florida Bay and the southwestern Everglades, as well as providing data on turtlegrass reproduction and shoot characteristics. Resource managers will be able to use these data to address ecosystem-response issues on a real-time basis, and to weigh alternative restoration options. FHAP-SF objectives are to: 1) develop a basic understanding of the relationships among water quality parameters (e.g., salinity, water clarity, nutrient levels) and seagrass species distribution and abundance in south Florida, 2) provide baseline data for parsing anthropogenically-induced changes from natural system variation, and 3) help verify model predictions on species and ecosystem-level responses to water quality changes associated with CERP.

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Contacts

Bradley Furman
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Research Scientist
Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
Abby Benson
  • Publisher
  • Biologist
U.S. Geological Survey

Geographic Coverage

South Florida

Bounding Coordinates South West [24.647, -82.705], North East [26.785, -79.277]

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